PARIS

Paris Ile-de-France : alive area, attracting, astonishing, in the heart of the country that is the most visited in the world. In the center: Paris, romantic capital and... city in full effervescence. Multiplication of the connected bars and tendency places: Paris forms part of the cities which count. You are there to cultivate, to relax ,to amuse ...? Here is a collection of addresses, good plans and infos useful on ParisIle-de France .
Here it begins!

WHAT TO DO IN THIS MOMENT?
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Paris and lsland-of-France moves, effervescent, the day, the night. Something to always see or live, all the year. Mator, amateur, curious, furious, esthete, vain, clubber, glandor, there is for all the neurons. Ready to stimulate yours?

GOOD PLANS TO KNOW ALL THE GOOD PLANS
All to know all the days, remain connected: many guides are there for that. In English, two references. For the French-speaking people, the hebdos standard the Official one of the Shows (0,46?) and Pariscope (0,30? , simple and rather complete. Special mention for Zurban (0;76?) : in addition to a magazine. Out of these bibles of the exits, target newspapers and magazines and many have also their guide. That of Telérama, Hot Guides of Nova, Aden in the World of Thursday, Figaroscope... Moreover the culture pages of the daily newspapers: all go there from their critical book, of their eclectic selection, their malignant pipes. To unearth in the bars and certain a little connected stores: fanzines are free and full with resources, kind of LYLO. And if for you, paper, it is past, the Net provides all this information in some clicks, on the sites of the press or tens of specialized addresses (paris-access.com.. parisavenue.com, ou-sortirfr, parissi.com, night-system.com, paris-touristoffice.com...). It is up to you to choose, but it is another history...

WHEN THE ARTISTS OPEN THEIR DOORS
How to approach the artists far from the museums and gallery outside? It is simple: in their workshops. Many opens them to the public. In this way, spontaneously, all the time, in time, within the framework of open days. They form part, most of the time, of associations of artists (those of the gold Drop, in the18th, workshops of Ménilmontant, in the11th, the associative workshop "on a purely provisional basis" in Montreuil, workshops of Belleville...). Appointments which are also a good manner to discover Parisian interiors. Consult the press or type on the Net (key words: "workshops of artists in Paris"). That falls in general in the soft season, spring or autumn. Other places are opened along the year.

AT THE MUSEUM!
Great classicS, great emotions
the Louvre: the largest museum of the world. A little discouraging, perhaps? Obviously, useless to believe that you will be able to see all. But impossible also to pass besides its exceptional collection, like that of Orsay, of the museums of Picasso and Guimet, the Institute of the Arab World... One in vain (believes) to know by court the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo or the Lunch on grass, nothing will never replace a face-to-face. Namely the museums are far from being simple windows. Guided tours (not to be been sulky, one learns there always much), concerts, meetings, conferences, festivals..their auditoriums and rooms of conferences are very frequentable places. You get the programs on the spot or consult the press!

THE TENDENCY... ACCORDING TO YOUR TENDENCIES
One in vain will lick in mass the windows of the large dressmakers
Nothing to make, for the majority among us it is too expensive! Not serious: to find Paris at small prices is not a vain bet. In bulk, apart from the periods of sales, there are initially the private sales. A requirement (of size, agreement): to form part of the happy fews who receive the guests. The best is still to get information in its preferred stores, to even spend there a little money: you will automatically see yourselves integrating in the list of the privileged customers! More accessible, stores of marked-down designer clothing or standard destocking of factories the sheep with 5 legs, stores of factory of the street of Alésia, Marks Avenue, Quay of the marks, or the Valley Shopping Village. If not, have a look on the annual edition of "Paris not expensive", small intelligent guide of the addresses of the low-priced places of the capital

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Rectos, bars, clubs... France is one of (if not it) the references of Western gastronomy. To eat well there is almost a religion, the meal, a kind of mass, the temples, numerous and varied. And Paris concentrates inevitably the maximum of it. Other places, same manners: after dining, the evening takes the way of the bars and boxes of the capital. There still, vast typology, for all the tastes and the colors. Although in Paris, a tone prevails during the night that is often a sleepless night!