Chateauneuf Pope

Chateauneuf-du-Pape is a collective in the Vaucluse office in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur district in southeastern France. The town lies around 3 kilometers 1.9 mi toward the east of the Rhone and 12 kilometers 7.5 mi north of the town of Avignon. In the 2012 evaluation the collective had a populace of 2,179.

A destroyed medieval mansion sits over the town and overwhelms the scene toward the south. It was worked in the fourteenth century for Pope John XXII, the second of the popes to live in Avignon. None of the resulting Avignon popes remained in Chateauneuf yet after the faction of 1378 the antipope Clement VII looked for the security of the mansion. With the takeoff of the popes the stronghold go to the diocese supervisor of Avignon, however it was too expansive and excessively costly, making it impossible to keep up and was utilized as a wellspring of stone for building work in the town.

At the season of the Revolution the structures were sold off and just the donjon was safeguarded. Amid the Second World War an endeavor was made to crush the donjon with explosive by German troopers however just the northern half was pulverized; the southern half stayed in place.