Travel Reference
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Festivals & Events
Tickets for Festival d'Avignon and Festival Off are also available from FNAC branches.
Festival d'Avignon
(
www.festival-avignon.com
;
Jul)
The three-week Festival d'Avignon, held annually in
July, is one of the world's great performing-arts festivals. Over 40 international works of
dance and drama play to 100,000-plus spectators at venues around town. Tickets don't go
on sale until springtime, but hotels sell out by February.
PERFORMING ARTS
Festival Off
(
www.avignonleoff.com
;
Jul)
Festival d'Avignon is paralleled by a simultaneous fringe
event, Festival Off, with eclectic (and cheaper) experimental programming. La Carte Off
(€16) provides 30% discounts.
PERFORMING ARTS
Sleeping
Hôtel La Mirande €€€
LUXURY HOTEL
( 04 90 14 20 20;
www.la-mirande.fr
; 4 place de la Mirande; d €425-610;
)
Avignon's top hotel occupies a converted 16th-century palace with dramatic interiors
decked in oriental rugs, gold-threaded tapestries, marble staircases and over-the-top Gallic
style. Low-end rooms are small, but still conjure the feeling of staying overnight in
someone's private château.
ande; mains from €35, chef's tabe €96)
offers cooking classes (from €80) and twice-
weekly chef's table (reservations essential); afternoon tea is served (albeit slowly) in the
glittering lobby or garden.
Le Limas €€
B&B
( 04 90 14 67 19;
www.le-limas-avignon.com
; 51 rue du Limas; d/tr incl breakfast from
€120/200; )
This chic B&B in an 18th-century town house is like something out of
Vogue Living
- everything designers strive for when mixing old and new: state-of-the-art
