Events in August and September
The yearly L’Etrange Festival, a film festival, will be held in late August to early September. The location is the Forum des Images. Find more information here, such as a complete index of the films that will be showed this year!
The Classical Music Festival will present orchestras from all over the world. They will play open-air concerts in cooperation with The Parc Floral. The concerts take place every weekend during both months.

Travelling to Paris in the search for calm might seem a paradox. And in the general sense, it is. But there are ways to see Paris from another perspective than the commercial or high tourism profile. You simply have to try smarter and harder. This means looking in the older neighbourhoods of Paris, still central and with a lot of traffic at places. But here you might also stumble upon more narrow streets, cafés and museums seemingly stitched into tall 18^th century buildings.

Over centuries, Paris consisted of small streets and only wooden houses, but this changed in the 1850’ies when the city was urbanized with newer architecture, and then, mostly of stone.

The Sebastopol Boulevard

In the midst of Paris is the Sebastopol boulevard and one can instantly notice how the atmosphere alters a little, from that of a city centre to a mixture of old and new. The buildings along this boulevard allows for a glimpse of what used to be ordinary architecture.

Place de la Republique

After having walked the entire Sebastopol boulevard, and some length of a crossing street, we arrive at the monument that marks the beginning of the republic of France. It was established after a long history of monarchy. Here stands the monument of the establishment of the republic.

Flexible Paris with the Paris Pass
It is noteworthy how much use the Paris Pass (www.paris-pass.com) came to use for the travelzine.eu team. With this nifty little pass, we had unlimited travel possibilities within Paris for three consecutive days. With a little paper, no larger than a match box, we could simply enjoy the travel possibilites within the city limits. On top of this, we had free entry to more than 60 attractions. We managed to do only four of these, and so we are sure to return very soon again!

Notre Dame

This is the reputable cathedral standing on the small island Île de la Cité. The cathedral was built in Gothic style and has awesome windows of stained glass. It was built between 1163 and finally completed in 1345, thus a project that spanned several generations. The cathedral is actually built in the same location as the first Christian church, Saint-Étienne Basilica. This in turn was built on top of a Gallo-Roman temple, so this place is a historical one in truth!

Perhaps modern time people mostly associate Notre Dame de Paris with the novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, by Victor Hugo.

Quartier Latin

The latin neighbourhood, which name is from the Latin language. Here one stumbles upon several prestigious universities, with their stately buildings looming over the narrow streets in the neighbourhood. More interesting for us, however, are the many bistros, which come to life during evenings and nights. Here you can definitely have an interesting night out. Watch your unsteady step back to the centre though, as you have to pass over bridges, in order to get to most youth hostels and hotels in central Paris.

P-C Markovski

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