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Lets discover the modern art

Among the many museums set up in the capital city, the Modern Art Museum in Paris stand out by permanency arrays’ quality telling the story of the European art, beginning to the Fauvism until now and with temporary exhibitions.

The museum set up in a wing within the Tokyo Palace, a monument built in 1937 for the International exhibition consecrated to the Arts et Techniques appliquées à la vie moderne” (“Exhibition of Arts and Techniques applied on modern life”). It is also possible to discover Picasso, Matisse, Dufy or even Braque and Chagall’s masterpieces.

Whether you are art hobbyist or mere curious we advise you to take your place in a Helzear room or flat, a hotel located just steps from the Modern Art Museum in Paris, just to meet these artists.

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In the thick of Catherine de Medicis’ gardens

During the second part of the 16th century, the Regent of France named Catherine de Medicis at the time, had the Tuileries Palace built on wilderness lands neighbouring the Louvre. Today, from that royal and imperial mansion only gardens remain. In fact, the monument was burnt during the Paris Commune of 1871, a social conflict… Read more »

Under the Arc de Triomphe’s vault

At the heart of Paris and exactly in the centre of the Charles-de-Gaulle’s place, the Arc de Triomphe of the Étoile ordered by Napoleon the 1st is taking the Tomb of the Unknown soldier and the torch burning permanently since 1923 in, to remember the soldiers dead for the nation. Each evening at 6.30 p.m.,… Read more »