On 18 May, more than 150 museums and cultural spaces will open their doors at sunset for a free, fresh look at the capital’s cultural heritage.
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17 May 2013
Sumptuous galettes de rois, from traditional to original, can be found throughout the French capital this January.
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07 January 2013
In Sète, the famous lanced competition takes place on a wooden boat, with a platform that extends 3m above the water and a 2.8m lance as a weapon.
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21 August 2012
In 1375, villagers of the Franco-Spanish borderlands along the Pyrenees mountains settled their differences with a treaty and magnanimous feast. That pact is still celebrated today
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26 July 2012
Les Docks, a fashion and design centre, has turned a riverside strip in the 13th arrondissement into one of the hippest destinations in the French capital.
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23 July 2012
From Washington DC to Tel Aviv, there is industrial beauty and history embedded in some of the city’s most overlooked features.
21 June 2012
The French capital has a superlative selection of perfumers from which to choose an original, high-quality and quintessentially Parisian scent.
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02 April 2012
With the Césars fast approaching and French cinema in the spotlight, head to one of the city's more obscure cinemas for a fresh look at some movie classics.
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21 February 2012
Normandy—famous for the D-Day Landings and fortified Mount St-Michel—also offers pastoral landscapes, small fishing ports and a dramatic coastline.
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19 May 2011
Join in the dawn to dusk art marathon known as “the white night”.
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01 October 2010
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