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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Step inside the greatest Gothic palace on earth — once the seat of Christendom — with a scholar-guide who brings nine popes' worth of intrigue, art, and power to vivid life. An absolute Avignon bucket-list pinnacle.
Marvel at Rome's greatest surviving aqueduct, wander a cliff-top citadel with views to the Alps, and stroll Van Gogh's sun-drenched Saint-Rémy — all in one gloriously curated Provence day. The definitive regional sweep from Avignon.
The most prestigious appellation in the Rhône Valley sits 18 km from Avignon's walls — a landscape of ancient galets roulés (rounded river stones) producing some of France's most celebrated reds. Taste them at source, with a sommelier guide, in the vineyards themselves.
Gordes — perched like a crown over the Luberon — the ochre-painted cliffs of Roussillon, and the lavender-fringed Abbaye de Sénanque: this private full-day circuit is the most visually intoxicating drive in all of Provence.
Inside Avignon's spectacular covered market — its walls draped in a living herb garden — shop alongside a local chef, taste cave-aged cheeses, truffles, and fresh tapenade, and sit down to a private dégustation lunch. Pure Provençal sensory luxury.
Dance on the famous bridge, then ascend to the rose-garden belvedere above the Rhône for a panorama that has inspired painters for centuries. The most atmospheric close to any Avignon day — best savoured in late-afternoon light.
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