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The City Of Festivals
aris is the world’s most dance event. One can also visit
striking city. The chic free concerts which are held
Marais and St. Germain, the within the city’s churches,
romantic stairway streets of during the Festival d’Art Sacré
Montmartre, the majestic grandeur in the weeks preceding Christmas.
that sweeps west from the Louvre Classical concerts are listed in
to the Arc de Triomphe and the the monthly Le Monde de la
Eiffel Tower shining brightly as Musique.
ever. But the magic is
dispersing, especially to the The Paris Autumn Festival was
north and east of the Bastille. fashioned in 1972 by Michel Guy,
The student and artistic types Georges Pompidou's Minister of
are infusing new vivacity into Culture. The Festival d'Automne
old working-class quarters, quickly became a junction for
turning a disused train station avant-garde and forward-looking
into a club, a hardware store artistic creation. The Festival
into a bar, a railroad into a draws large audiences and
garden walkway, old workshops motivates wide public interest.
into atmospheric restaurants.
Festival de Saint-Denis is a
Paris offers abundance choice and festival of a rich and varied
a wide variety of lively program of standard classical
festivals. Among these are the works. The festival has
free, city-wide Fête de la commissioned a new work entitled
Musique which is held on 21 June, Tentation d’Istanbul by Turkish
then the the Festival du Film de musician Mercan Dede. Created
Paris held in early April and the specially for the Saint-Denis
biennial Festival d’Automne held Basilica, Tentation d’Istanbul
during September to December was inspired by Fatih Akin's film
which comprises of contemporary Crossing the bridge.
plethora of improvised shows and
Anyone planning a visit to Paris, concerts that take place in
and wanting to take in city or venues large and small.
local festivals, would do well to
check for schedules pertaining to Paris has its portion of parades
the time of their trip. There is like the French Mardi Gras type,
a wide variety of events to Techno Parade. This sparkling,
satisfy almost any taste, at costumed variety of techno music
almost any time of the year. winds its way through the east
section of Paris, generally in
“Singin' In Paris” is a 62-hour mid-September. The participants
series of musical presentations and audience are generally of the
in a luxurious 17th century younger generation.
mansion in the Marais district.
There is a wide variety of In Paris the Film Festival takes
programs focusing on songs about place in spring; it showcases
Paris as well as featuring songs more than a hundred films over
in French that are famous around six Parisian cinemas. The whole
the world. festival includes premierès,
press awards, public awards, and
Parisians also commemorate the film novel prizes. Another
impending summer season on a ongoing occasion for tourists to
grand scale, usually in the get off their feet and enjoy some
latter part of June. The Fête de fine French cinema is a visit to
la Musique has its official the Forum des Images video
schedule of events usually a free library. Visual arts celebrations
concert generally held on the are abundant, and one should be
Place de République, also able to find something going on
including a public spirited at almost any time one visit.
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