Paris | Paristep

On Friday you read in the metro that during the weekend of May 25th and 26th old refridgerating warehouse, as the Parisians call them „les Frigos“, open the doors to the public and on Saturday afternoon you are among many other curious visitors in the old building in the Bercy quarter by the modern library of F. Mitterand.

In the Maillol Museum, not far from the Invalides, from March 27th till July 28th 2013 the Venetian glass Murano is declined in all the shapes. An interesting and esthetical view on the seven centuries of the glass production from the Murano island in Venice will accompany you through two floors of the exhibition, through two hundred unique objects.

On the first sight it does not seem to be an attractive plan for your Parisian walks. It’s neither Louvre, nor Musée d Orsay or Rodin Museum. However, you are in the country of wines, among people for whom the wine knowledge and tasting is one of the biggest pleasures of life and definitely belongs to their „savoir-vivre“.

March evening with dense snowing, evening lights of the Hôtel de Louvre are being blurred in your eyes by the snow flakes, falling snow dulls the noises of Paris. Before the performance of Molière’s "The Miser" we are looking for the warmth in the Café de la Comédie Française. In order to make us seated the waiter with fast efficient gestures creates the place behind a tiny table.

Its name is Argonaute, was constructed in Cherbourg and launched to the sea waters in 1958. An important event for Parisians, on October 10th 1989 the submarine arrived to the La Villette Park. You can identify it without problems close to the ball-shaped cinema Géode, reflecting the caprices of Parisian sky.

Days of the National Heritage, in France called „Journées du Patrimoine“ were held this year during the weekend of September 15th and 16th and so the sunny hot September weekend motivated hundreds of thousands of people to stand in the long lines in front of the numerous Parisian sights, state institutions, private aristocratic houses, hospitals, hotels, police stations, townhalls... located in old historical buildings.

When walking in the long serpentine metro corridors the posters inform you about various theatre performances, museum exhibitions, concerts and travel destinations. Free newspapers and magazines distributed in the metro do the same, they try to attract you to numerous possibilities of Parisian cultural and gourmandise life.

Just couple of steps from the busy quarter Odéon, hidden in the never calming dynamic life of cinemas, restaurants, coffee places and bars of the Saint-Germain boulevard, is located an architectonic and cultural jewel of geometric simplicity, with harmonic, cosy interior spaces – a theatre.

Spring 2012 in the Carnavalet Museum of the old Parisian quarter Marais is characterized also by the spirit of the exhibition of the photographer Eugène Atget, who with his pictures artistically and truthfully documented the history and atmosphere of Paris of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

The history of the place called „Centquatre“ (104) is more than curious. The building which reminds an old train station, was constructed in 1873 and from the year 1905 there was a funeral office here. In 1905 the Church was separated from the State and everybody had the right to have a funeral ceremony, whatever the religion, the marital status.