After Jeanne Lanvin, The Palais Galliera takes an interest in another great woman in Fashion: Countess Greffulhe. Born Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay (1860-1952), the most beautiful woman of Paris was known both for her elegance and her mind. She moved on to posterity thanks to Marcel Proust in his famous book: A la recherche du temps […]
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- January 15, 2016
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From January 16th to 17th 2016, don’t miss the 31st edition of the Festival international du voyage à vélo (International festival of bike tour), an event dedicated to cycling, organised by Cyclo-Camping International at the Centre George Pompidou in Vincennes. Since 1986, this foundation gathers and informs all the bike tour lovers and enables them […]
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- January 14, 2016
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For the 7th consecutive year, the Jardin d’Acclimatation offers the entrance to all visitors, each Friday of January 2016, in order to thank them for their loyalty and wish them a great year. Located on the edge of the bois de Boulogne (16th), between the porte Maillot and the porte des Sablons, this green location […]
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- January 13, 2016
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Last October, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced her project of pedestrianisation of the right bank of Seine. Indeed, after the left bank pedestrianisation’s success (from Pont Royal to Pont de l’Alma), she decided to go on the conquest of these places for Parisians and tourists, in converting a part of the right bank in […]
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- January 12, 2016
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Until January 25th 2016, the art of the Florentine portrait of the XVI century is on display at the musée Jacquemart-André, nearby the avenue des Champs-Elysées and the Green Hotels Paris, the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni. It is the occasion for the public to admire works from the Italian art of the Renaissance and […]
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- January 11, 2016
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This exhibition scheduled until February 29th 2016 at the Cité de l’architecture invites us to discover the work method of Italian architect Renzo Piano and his team. Born on 14 September 1937 in a builder family, the creative is early steeped in this universe. With “La méthode Piano” (“The Piano method”), the builder’s whole creative […]
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- January 08, 2016
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Less than a month after the COP21, Paris seems to take another turn, more eco-aware, in the beginning of this year 2016. Indeed, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced that the most beautiful avenue of the world will become pedestrian once a month, from April 3rd next. This initiative fits into the logical outcome […]
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- January 07, 2016
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For the first time since 14 years, the famous canal linking the bassin de la Villette and the port de l’Arsenal is put in abeyance during 3 months, from January 4th to April 4th 2016. The cleaning is currently taking place between the first lock of the canal, located place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, […]
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- January 06, 2016
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During the COP21, the opening of the greatest photovoltaic solar power plant came along at just the right time. The 1st December 2015, CEO of Neoen (first independent producer of renewable electricity in France) Xavier Barbaro launched close to Bordeaux, in Cestas, the Europe’s greatest photovoltaic solar power plant. It stretches on 260 hectares, the […]
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- January 05, 2016
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In response to its current exhibition “Kuniyoshi, le démon de l’estampe”, the Petit Palais displays around forty ceramics and engravings in these permanent collections. They reveal the influence of the culinary art in Japan, on the occasion of the second half of the XIX century. The public will admire two plates of the famous Service Rousseau […]
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- January 04, 2016
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