It's beautiful Avignon,

a town that lives passionately its Provençal culture.

It's beautiful Avignon, designated as European Cultural Capital for the year 2000, where every summer the theater festival, a world-renowned event, fills the town, mixing the official shows with the "festival off" in a wave of dynamic creativity.

It's beautiful Avignon with its bridge where you can dance, as sung the world over.

It's beautiful Avignon, where the biggest gothic palace in Europe, the famous Palace of the Popes, still watches over the city.

It is in this beautiful town that Christian Etienne was born, and it is here that he has chosen to welcome you in his restaurant in the heart of a striking historic building, flanking the Palace of the Popes itself (Restaurant Christian Etienne is the building just visible in this photograph, to the right of the palace).