THE PAPAL PALACE, AVIGNON (France)
From 1309 to 1376, the Pope lived not in the Vatican but in Avignon, France. The seven popes who reigned there were all French, and beholden to the French crown. They lived in this, one of the largest medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. Two further "antipopes"--leaders of a schismatic church after the legitimate papacy returned to Rome--also lived at Avignon.
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