May 30: around Avignon 4

The last part of my Avignon exploration brought me through the extra-dense heart of the old city.

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A dynamic composition of panels at the southwest corner of Rue Thiers and Rue Philonarde.

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Mysterious light along Rue Four de la Terre as seen from Rue Thiers.

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This car off Rue Amphoux reminds me a bit of a crouching spider, partly due to its multi headlights.

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On Rue Bonneterie, an odd building geometry hove into view...

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...it's an enormous slice out of the corner of this building at Rue Artaud! Much bigger than any I'd seen in the Engadin, and with its own door and window no less.

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Now back at Les Halles; this is the more demure west side, along Rue Petite Meuse.

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Continuing on Bonneterie past Les Halles into some different paving...

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...whoa, I guess so!! This is looking south on Rue des Fourbisseurs across Rue Bonneterie.

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The shop streets in this core area all have this fantastic paving; it's basically a neighborhood-sized artwork. This is the Place du Changé, at Rue Rouge and Rue Rappe.

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Diagonal pavers leading between the jagged edges of Rue Rappe from the Place du Changé. Also interesting to keep seeing these metal expansion joints in the middle of the street.

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Probably along Rue des Faucons, a most curvilinear of fountains.

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Back to the Place des Cours Saints near the hotel, with the Église des Célestins behind the sycamores.

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And then back to the hotel (can you read the sign?) to gather my belongings and head back to the Gare to depart for Spain.

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Emerging into the trainshed under the openwork roof.