Palais des Papes (Avignon)

Place du Palais
84000 Avignon, France
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This was the home of the Catholic pope from 1309, when Avignon became the residence of the Popes when the Gascon Bertrand de Goth, as Pope Clement V, unwilling to face the violent chaos of Rome after his election (1305), moved the Papal Curia to Avignon. The papacy moved back to Rome in 1377, and this became the subsequent seat of antipopes during the Schism (known as the Western Schism or Great Schism).
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Coordinates:  43°57'2"N 4°48'27"E
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