Avignon

Take bus line 5, destination “Palais de Justice / Limbert,” from the Tourism Office stop, located 5 minutes by foot from the hotel.
Get off at the “Porte de l’Oulle” stop, and you are at the foot of the Avignon Ramparts.

Walking remains the best way to get around. However, feel free to take the electric shuttle, Baladine, which can take you from one point to another according to your desires, for €0.50 per person.
Open during the day, covered with a small canvas at nightfall, it allows you to spot the various historical places where you wish to stop!

You can access this largest river island in Europe:

• by car via the Daladier bridge, stop at the free parking on Ile Piot, you are already on the Ile de la Barthelasse!
• by bus, take bus line n°5, destination “Palais de Justice / Limbert,” from the Tourism Office stop, located 5 minutes by foot from the hotel.
  Ask to get off at Ile Piot. Want to take a tour of Avignon? A free shuttle connects the parking on Ile Piot to the Porte de l’Oulle, in Avignon.

Did you know?

In the past, Avignon locals would dance in the guinguettes on the eastern arm of the Rhône, which surrounds the Ile de la Barthelasse from the Avignon side. Hence the nuance in the famous song: “Under the bridge of Avignon (not “on”), we dance, we dance…” A true green lung of the city, meander during a bucolic moment along the small roads amid the orchards. Much of the island’s banks are also classified as a Natural Area of Ecological, Faunistic, and Floristic Interest. They shelter numerous species: nesting birds, grey herons, mallards, cormorants, hedgehogs, dormice, and beavers…