Paris – the most visited city in the world, with 44 million visitors a year, is preparing as best it can to welcome another (according to the most accredited estimates, around 16) million tourists to visit the Olympics. And to the usual, immense cultural proposal, a new impulse that includes every sector: from hospitality to catering to urban transformations.
Marais
As for exhibitions, the district of Marais was abandoned in the 1960s, but despite having the highest concentration of historic buildings in the capital, it is today a consolidated destination in fashion and is among the most effervescent areas from many points of view. The presence of the Picasso Museum with its temporary exhibitions, together with the other 17 museum spaces that cover 126 hectares from the Seine to the Place de la République, on the 50th anniversary of the Spanish artist’s death, has placed it among the most important destinations dedicated to the Spanish artist.
In addition to the artistic interest, new art galleries and hotels with a strong personality are opening, so much so that they have only recently opened two new 5-star hotels. Addresses that are already considered essential by an attentive international clientele: Grand Mazarin and Maison Proust are two places to try (also by external customers) for unique details: they share a museum facility; moreover, while the first boasts the best Yiddish restaurant in Paris, the other suggests the best cocktails in Ville Léon.
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Right bank
But it’s there that the right banks amaze in terms of openings and inaugurations that make it unique for the special attention it receives in current photos, so much so that Paris is also confirming itself as the world capital of this sector. Exactly one century after the birth of the avant-garde in the 1920s, Se Quai de la Photo is a spectacular museum set up on a glass barge moored on the Seine. And interest was sanctified on November 9 in the futuristic Grand Palais Ephémère temporary architecture of laminated wood, concrete, and glass designed by Wilmotte & Associates studio (Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam). Photo Paris, the best of the world’s photographic production, will be seen directly under the Eiffel Tower.
Finally, to make the design of the exhibition unique in the city, on September 20, Maison Gainsbourg opened the doors to the legendary 5bis rue de Verneuil. The address was the final resting place, now turned into a museum thanks to the efforts of his daughter Charlotte, an eclectic French artist of Ukrainian origin. He has an incredible character that still arouses curiosity, just like his hometown, which, when you think you know it perfectly, surprises you with new, original places to discover.
After carefully selecting all that is new, starting from the most central districts along the Seine to the panoramic terraces and bucolic interior gardens of the Montmartre area, we have selected the best attractions of the Ville Lumière, new addresses from which you can experience the city from a new, unexplored point of view.
