PARIS ÎLE-DE-FRANCE

In the countryside as downtown,Ile-de France reinvents the perpetual motion. At the source of the
energy

100% VITAMINS
Sports on all the tones, displays of all the styles, festivals along the year round, exhibitions and saloons which follow one another... You will have the embarrassment of the choice. That your character carries you towards the small white ball, horsemanship, , the water sports, tennis or the sail... you will find here what to appease your passion. Note also that the shows, displays, festivals and festivals in any kind form a fabric of display that are so tight that it composes a continuous screen: inIle-de France , the dead season does not exist! In the same way, there are balls of district in village festivals, parties in the bars in insane nights in some astonishing places, you will inevitably find festivals that fit your tastes, your desires... and your energy

STRONG FEELINGS
You like to have the head in the air? Let us go for Space Montain in Disneyland @ Paris, a tour in the montgolfier, a jump in parachute, a recall in climbing …The unusual meetings, that told you? Spin therefore to the park of Thoiry, for an instructive face-to-face with a giraffe, a lion, a chimpanzee... Another radical method so that your heart beats wildly : the furious evenings that often come with festivals. Everywhere and in all season, is it one thousand and one ideas to have fun, to unwind, to live at full capacity?

Magic of the Light raw light of summer, tender rays of winter...Ile-de France , source of creation

ALL THE LIGHT ON ILE-DE FRANCE
To explain the true fascination which Ile-de France area exerted on the artists... is an impossible task. If you never lived a twilight on the fields of colza, neither tasted the soft estival torpor of the edges of the Marne, nor even traversed a morning of autumn the sunken lanes of a forest of the area... you will not be able to understand. Normal: how to describe the light? The landscapes of the area the source of an infinite subjects of pictures for the landscape painters or the Impressionists. They were also used as a canvas of bottom for the architects of the whole world who, with the passing of the centuries, with all disconcerted styles, tried to domesticate this single light, playing with the transparencies and the nuances of intensity... In the Gothic churches for example, or certain Renaissance buildings, the openings, windows and stained glasses occupy an invariably paramount role. In the contemporary construction industries, the use of glass still multiplies the creative potential...
THE LIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT
The area shines, indeed, in all the fields. It prance for a long time to the forefront of the progress (the Curie museum, inter alia, testifies some). and this tradition still has beautiful days in front of it: the ECA (Police to the atomic energy) or the City of Sciences and the Industry of the Villette will bring you some lights on the matter!

To fall under the Charm give time to time... InIle-de France , to know how to enjoy the moment is an art.

TO GIVE TIME TO TIME... INIle-de France , TO KNOW HOW TO ENJOY the MOMENT IS AN ART OF LIVING.
With the detour of a path, the first houses appear: their fair stone walls, their soft pitched , roofs dominated by the bell-tower standing up towards the sky, the small river that overhangs a mossy bridge,, the apple tree in flower enthroning with dignity in the center of the place... This peaceful harmony takes its source in each detail. If you leave to discover its villages of charm, the area will be able to reveal you a complete panoply of small disorientating boroughs. Often coiled at the hollow of secret valleys, they take you along well far behind in a wink of eye, at the court of rural France firmly anchored in its traditions. Difficult to remain insensitive to the attractions of these lost small valleys. In the high valley of Chevreuse, that of Renarde or Aubette, along Petit-Morin where the waterfalls, the song of the birds, the softness of the air. Allured, inebriate, elsewhere, well far from the capital however near...

Along the water
Rivers and channels make slip their water along dense forests, in the heart of secret valleys, in changing landscapes. On foot, on horseback or on bicycle, and especially in boat, leave to discover their banks and follow their languorous course. A stroll in barge over the Seine, the Marne or Oise will make you skirt pretty secular villages, imposing strengthened farms and guinguettes vibrating with the sound of the accordion. If the heart tells you, you will approach one of the 60 small islands which strew their course. But be discrete: they often form tiny natural reserves where fauna and flora open out, that are preserved from urbanization.

INSPIRED ISLAND-OF-FRANCE
the Furnace House in Chatou, the Ganne inn in Barbizon, the Ravoux inn in Auvers, the workshop of Daubigny, those of Derain, Millet or Theodore Rousseau, houses of Monet Chateaubriant, Dumas, Balzac, Ravel or Debussy... Spread in all the area, public places and private residences constitute famous points of appointment where the shades of the great creators still prowl. All open to you the road of inspiration in Island-of-Frarnce.

A COUNTRY OF GASTRONOMES
Duck braised with cherries of Montmorency, roast hen of Houdan, cress of the Essonne delightfully raised by the mustard of Meaux, jam of pinks of Layered branches or Brie of Melun... the culinary specialities do not miss inIle-de France ... but, after all, the same applies to all the areas of our country. The most remarkable phenomenon is elsewhere: in this single capacity which hasIle-de France to concentrate all the gastronomical traditions of the country. The influence of the capital undoubtedly. A thing is sure: to taste a bouillabaisse delightfully a garlic, sauerkraut overflowing of sausages or some rich crepes of this caramel point whose sep the Breton ones have the secrecy... all is possible here "Paris, it is the province which is found" explained Marcel Pagnol.Ile-de France undoubtedly controls all savours of them.