Palais du Roure

"Museum of atmosphere," the palace of Roure (palace of oak) offers visitors the collections very different and sometimes unexpected, as these few memories of the British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, who died at Avignon in 1873. Among its treasures, the house contains a very rich set of Provencal furniture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a painted ceiling of the late fifteenth century, a few painted canvas wall of the eighteenth century, a gallery devoted to the work of Belgian Symbolist painter Henry de Groux (1867-1930) who lived in these places. One floor is devoted to the ethnography of Provence. An important part is reserved for memories of Camargue Folco de Baroncelli, now manadier to Saintes Maries de la Mer in the late nineteenth century, which was a great defender of traditions and saved the breed of horses and bulls of the Camargue. One of the most beautiful houses of Avignon, the Palais du Roure is now a center of Mediterranean culture.