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The amusement park dedicated to Napoleon will be opened near Paris

Napoleonland – even the name of this theme park, which will be built near Paris in coming years, says that its creators are going to take away a part of glory of the famous Disneyland.

Entertaining complex, conceived in honor of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, will locate in a very symbolic place – in the town of Montereau near Paris. Exactly here Napoleon won a symbolic victory over Russian and Austrian armies in the distant 1814.

The author of an idea of this new park is the former French Minister for Overseas Territories and a great lover of history – Yves Jego. According Mr. Jego, Napoleonland «will be perfect for a family recreation”.

Program of the new French amusement park, of course, will be composed of various “military” performances.

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David Guetta will perform in Bercy

French DJ- legend David Guetta will give the final concerts of his tour in Paris supporting the album «Nothing But The Beat».

The double album of the most popular French artist of the first decade of the XXI century was released in August 2011 and had already won the world-wide success.

David Guetta is known primarily for his inflammatory remixes (many pop-stars have been successful largely due to his “adaptations”). However, almost all the music for two new disks, united under one name, was created by David Guetta himself.

“I’ve never worked as much as on this album. It’s good that my wonderful colleagues helped me,”- David Guetta commented the album «Nothing But The Beat».

On April 7 and 8 the famous DJ will concertize at Bercy Sports Palace (Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy) which to become “the biggest dance club in France” these days.

The concerts’ beginning – 21.30. The organizers advise to come earlier not to stand in line of the fans avid for energy of David Guetta. The doors of Bercy will open two hours before the show – at 19.30.

Ticket prices start from 45 euros.

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Soundgarden concert in Paris

The heyday of the American group Soundgarden fell on the first half of the 1990s when musicians were considered perhaps the main “competitors” of the legendary Nirvana (and we must admit that it was quite deservedly) in the popular musical direction – “grunge”. Founded in 1984 in Seattle by Chris Cornell the band has sold over twenty million of their disks before in 1997 the musicians stoped cooperation because of creative differences, – in any event the official version says so.

At the end of 2009 Soundgarden began its second life after the band’s frontman Chris Cornell and guitarist Kim Tayil decided to return to the common creative work. New members are also Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd. And a new studio album «Live On i5», published in 2011, became the result of this reunion. In addition, the band begins their world tour in support of their new album.

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Parisian Museum of Advertising

The life of modern human society is simply impossible to imagine without such a phenomenon as advertising. It is difficult to say when there were the first advertisers, but we can safely say that advertising had become an important element of human development. And if we take into account the fact that Paris has been a favorite place for people of different creative professions historically, then the advertising had to become something special for this city.

Do you like advertising or are an expert in this field, or maybe just interested in all the original? In this case, you definitely need to visit Parisian Museum of Advertising (Musee de la Publicite), collected under its roof the brightest examples of the French advertising.

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Parisian Museum of coins and medals

The nature of every person has something special and unique, a taste for something what another may consider not interesting and useless. Tell me: do many of us take a great interest in numismatics? Probably not! But, nevertheless, there are people for whom ancient coins and medals are, perhaps, the breath of life. And these people, certainly, would visit with great pleasure one of the oldest museums in France – the Cabinet of coins and medals (Cabinet des Medailles et Monnaies) – being in Paris.

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Nightwish is going to Paris

The debates about in what style Nightwish plays have being held since the beginning of its history. But this does not prevent the band to pack concert halls and stadiums in any of the cities where the famous Finnish musicians come to.

Perhaps, the best definition of their style is voiced by the author of Nightwish’s music and lyrics Tuomas Holopainen: “melodic heavy metal with female vocals”.

And let some fans to believe that after a former soloist Tarja Turunen departure the band is not the same, other fans like Nightwish with her successor Anette Olzon even more than before.

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Rue de Rivoli

Paris is a unique city and this its feature becomes apparent not only in the hundreds of museums, palaces, stone bridges and other attractions. Streets of Paris are works of art themselves. Most of the modern Parisian streets have acquired their appearance during the time of the Emperor Napoleon and the famous city prefect Baron Haussmann. The list of Parisian streets, pretending to be a symbol of the French capital, is rather large, but in this article we would like to tell in short about the legendary Rue de Rivoli.

Rivoli street runs from the Place de la Bastille to the Place de la Concorde along the Seine and is considered one of the brightest achievements of Napoleon on the issue of city planning, although it was completed during the reign of Louis Philippe. The authors of the project on construction of Rue de Rivoli were well-known architects Fontaine and Percier.

Small rectangular Square of Pyramids, surrounded with beautiful buildings with arcades, is a nice adornment of the street. And in the center of the square there is an equestrian statue of the national hero of France – Jeanne d’Arc (author – Fremiet, 1874).

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To Paris in winter?

Somebody can say that there is no a great difference where to go to one or another city, because streets, houses, monuments, museums… remain to be at their places. The weather in rainy London in a little different from the weather in Berlin at the same time (of course, excepting famous London fog :-) ). However, in truth it is a very perfunctory view, every city (does not matter – New York, Warsaw, Stockholm, Mexico…) has its own unique distinctive features in summer and winter, in spring and autumn. And since our site is dedicated to Paris, today we would like to say on the merits of Paris in winter – after all, it’s winter now :-)

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The world’s largest salon of luxury watches will be opened in Paris

The world’s largest salon of watches of elite brands will be opened in Paris this year. The place of its location is the center of Paris – the second district – on Boulevard des Capucines.

The salon will be opened by a Swiss company Bucherer which was founded in 1888 and now has 26 stores in France, Germany and Switzerland.

The area of ​​about two thousand square meters will offer chronometers of such famous brands like Baume & Mercier, Breitling, Chopard, Gucci, Longines, Piaget, Rolex, TAG Heuer and others.

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The new show of Rammstein in Paris

«Made in Germany 1995-2011» – exactly so without any pretentiousness – the new album of popular German band Rammstein is called. The world release of the album took place on the 6th of December, 2011. And on March, 6 the musicians will come to Paris within the bounds of a concert tour for support of the «Made in …».

As you can guess already by the title, the album is a collection of the band’s best songs. However, fans of Rammstein will have chance not only to sing along their favorite songs, but also to hear the new work of the band – Mein Land.

Ticket prices start from 63.50 Euros.

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