Jun 25
Paris Beach
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Who said Paris doesn’t have a beach? Since 2002 the city of lights has had something new to visit every summer: Paris Beach. From July 20th until August 20th , the most touristic city in the world becomes a spa. Because he couldn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t accept the idea that people who were not able to go on vacation couldn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t enjoy sunbathing, the Mayor of the city decided to transform the right bank of the Seine into a large beach along with other sites in the capital such as the Place de l?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢H?ɬ¥tel – de-Ville or the pond of the Villette.

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Paris Beach has a very varied choice of activities to please both kids and adults, in family or between friends. A space has been specially laid out for them, Adventure Beach, where they can find trampolines, pedal boats, water sports and workshops with clowns to have fun. While the kids build sand castles, parents can relax on deckchairs available to everyone, enjoy ice cream, attend one of the many concerts or just sip a drink in one of the bars installed on the banks of the Seine.

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Jun 4

Once summer arrives the cities put on their finest outfits and dress up as it were. The streets are filled with life thanks to the terrace bars, the good weather and the vast cultural and leisure offerings. The summer season brings an endless number of festivals suitable for all tastes and wallets. This is the case of the Paris Jazz Festival, a beautiful festival that is celebrated every year in an incomparable backdrop, the Parc Floral.

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Parisian people are great lovers of jazz music. After the celebration of the Primavera Jazz Festival where homage was paid to the jazz music genre, we see the arrival of the 17th edition of the Paris Jazz Festival. From June 6th until the end of July, the most beautiful botanical garden of Europe (Floral Park) will host every weekend the best international jazz concerts. This year?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s program includes renowned artists of the world of jazz, blues or funk.

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May 26

PARIS (Reuters) ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Jewelry and other items worth around 80,000 euros ($112,000) were stolen from Italian actress Monica Bellucci’s Paris apartment on Sunday while she was at the Cannes Film Festival’s closing ceremony, police said.

Monica Bellucci, a former model who is married to French cinema star Vincent Cassel and has appeared in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Irreversible,” had not yet officially reported the theft, a police spokesman said.

A final valuation of the items stolen from the couple’s apartment, which also included laptop computers and Bellucci’s Italian passport, was therefore not available.

Bellucci was at Cannes, a resort town on France’s Mediterranean coast, to promote Marina de Van’s “Don’t Turn Around,” in which she stars alongside French actress and former Bond girl Sophie Marceau.

An unknown number of burglars entered the apartment, on the fourth floor of a building in eastern Paris, from a terrace, the spokesman said.

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May 21

This unique event is repeated every year on June 21st to celebrate the summer solstice. This is a prestigious international festival that welcomes summer with all kinds of music; this is called the F?ɬ™te de la Musique or Festival of Music. Musicians from around the world offer free concerts and shows in almost every corner of the capital ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú many of them are amazing improvisations. The show usually begins in the afternoon and ends at night.

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Paris will captivate you! People say that during the festivities of la fete de la musique, these beautiful places become even more so. Enjoy this beautiful day, and don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t miss the concerts in such amazing places as the Champs Elys?ɬ©es, the Place de la Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe and the famous iron lady, the Eiffel Tower.

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May 21
The Catacombs of Paris
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In addition to its wonderful museums and its typical caf?ɬ©s, Paris is full of mysteries. Do you know for instance that there is a veritable maze of underground tunnels below the city of lights? If you have seen the Da Vinci Code, this visit may be for you.

The undergrounds of Paris are part of the folklore and go back to the origins of the city; Paris was actually built on a layer of materials that have been used for its construction. Quarries have been dug under the city from the 14th century in a completely anarchic way. Many accidents began to take place in the early 19th century and the exploitation of the quarries was finally banned.

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May 4

There aren?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t many days left for the premiere of the 62nd Edition of the Cannes Film Festival that will be celebrated from May 13th to May 24th in the French city. For the first time in the history of the festival, an animation movie will inaugurate the contest: Up, by Disney-Pixar; although in previous years this genre has already been included in the Official Section of the event.

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The renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury of the present edition, accompanied by the Italian Asia Argento, the U.S. director James Gray, the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the U.S. actress Robin Wright Penn, the Taiwanese actress Shu Qi, the British novelist Hanif Kureishi and the Korean writer and director Lee Chang-dong.

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Apr 30

If you thought you knew everything about Paris, its monuments, museums, trendy bars, shopping streets ?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ You?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d be surprised! The Parisians themselves recognize it easily, the city of lights never ceases to surprise you, and there is always something new to discover.

For example, have you heard of the discrete Promenade Plant?ɬ©e, a lovely footpath above ground level, adored by Parisians in search of a little greenery and freshness at the week-end?

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The ?¢‚Ǩ?ìsuspended tour?¢‚Ǩ¬ù or promenade plant?ɬ©e serpentines through the entire 12th district and is about 4.5 km long ; an audacious landscape gardener and an architect ( Mathieux and Vergely) had an incredible idea: to use an old railway line that?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s been disused since 1969 and transform it into a green path?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.suspended above the city!

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Apr 24

The Eiffel Tower is illuminated by more than 350 projectors, during the evening it shines with over 22,000 lights and 900 lights in celebration. The ?¢‚Ǩ?ìTour Eiffel?¢‚Ǩ¬ù is the symbol of Paris, named by the name of its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel. Anyone who has ever been to Paris has surely seen it and there is no book about history, geography or tourism that doesn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t have a picture of the ?¢‚Ǩ?ìdame de fer?¢‚Ǩ¬ù (the iron lady), as the French call her.

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Apr 7

Are you a fan of the French movie ?¢‚Ǩ?ìAmelie?¢‚Ǩ¬ù and of its fantastic Parisian retro style? Do you remember when she meets her future fianc?ɬ© on a ghost train?
Come and discover this romantic and nostalgic atmosphere at the incredible ?¢‚Ǩ?ìFoire du Trone?¢‚Ǩ¬ù fair in Paris, where the movie was shot!

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Mar 4

It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s very easy to get lost in the Louvre Museum. Sometimes because we can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t find the exit, and sometimes because so many of the works of art captivate us and we lose all sense of time and space. The Louvre Museum is one of the most spectacular and best known museums in the world. It receives over 8 million visitors annually. In fact, this is one of the most visited tourist attractions along with the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris is also a great city to learn French in, too.

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