Inside a courtyard of the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Faced with massive unrest in Rome after his election to the papacy in 1305, Pope Clement V moved the Papal Curia to the safety of Avignon. The palace, a reconstructed and enhanced bishops' palace, continued to house Popes until 1377, when the return of the sitting Pope to Rome caused the Western Schism, with two men simultaneously claiming to be the 'true' pope. The antipopes Clement VII and Benedict XIII ruled from here until 1403. It was finally returned to the authority of official papal legates in 1433.
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