Carpentras

Carpentras is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence Alpes Cote d Azur region in southeastern France. It stands on the banks of the Auzon. As capital of the Comtat Venaissin, it changed into regularly the residence of the Avignon popes the Papal States retained possession of the Venaissin until the French Revolution. Nowadays, Carpentras is an industrial center for Comtat Venaissin and is famous for the black truffle markets held from wintry climate to early spring.

Carpentras was a business website used by Greek investors in historic instances and mentioned to Romans at the beginning as Carpentoracte Meminorum, said through Pliny after which renamed Forum Neronis the city maintains an wonderful Roman triumphal arch that has been enclosed with the useful resource of the bishops palace, rebuilt in 1640, now a law courtroom, and a machicolated metropolis gate, the Porte d Orange. For the facts of the bishopric of Carpentras see Ancient Diocese of Carpentras. At the start of the Avignon Papacy, Pope Clement V took up house, together with the Roman Curia, in Carpentras in 1313. It became his successor Pope John XXII who settled definitively at Avignon.