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  • ARENES DE LUTECE 
  • ART GALLERIES 
  • ART NOUVEAU 
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  • BASTILLE DAY EVENTS:  day’s parade on the Champ- Elysées, free performance at Opera Bastille or Garnier, fireworks’ display at the Eiffel Tower, Firemen’s’ balls,held in all parts of the capital (also on July 13th)
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  • CHINA TOWN 
  • CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL: The Chinese community celebrates the dawning of the Year in February with a colourful parade that takes place in the 13th arrondissement, between the Place d'Italie and the Porte de Choisy. 
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  • CHURCHES: Entering a church is free, including at Notre-Dame, Sacré-Coeur. St Germain l’Auxerrois, St Sulpice, St Séverin... 
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  • CONCERTS 
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  • COLOURS OF THE SKYE
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  • DANCING IN THE NIGHT
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  • EXHIBITIONS
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  • FETE DE LA MUSIQUE (Music Festival): on June 21st is the now traditional Fête de la Musique. Every concert hall, every monument, every street-corner is filled with musicians playing classical music, jazz, rock, techno… There is music to match the taste of everyone, and for free! 
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  • FLEA MARKETS 
  • FOUNTAINS 
  • FUNICULAR IN MONTMARTRE (free with you orange card) 
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  • GLITTERING OF THE EIFFEL TOWER: The Eiffel Tower is glittering each hour for ten minutes, from dusk until 2 am.
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  • ICE-SKATING : Every winter there is an outdoor free ice ring Place de l’Hôtel de Ville and in some other areas of Paris. 
  • ISLANDS  
  • ILLUMINATIONS: Each evening a special magic takes over the city when all the monuments are illuminated! The Eiffell tower
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  • LOUVRE DES ANTIQUAIRES
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  • MARKETS 
  • MAPS OF PARIS: In every metro station, at the ticket counter, you can pick up a free map of Paris with all Metro/RER & bus lines. Ask:"avez-vous un plan de Paris s’il vous plaît ?". There is a small map (petit plan) and a big one (grand plan) easier to read. You can ask for both.    
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  • MEDIEVAL PART OF PARIS 
  • MONUMENTS FREE THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, PART OF THE YEAR: 
  • Free the 1st Sunday of every month from October 1st to March 31: Sainte-Chapelle, Arc de Triomphe, Conciergerie, Panthéon, Notre-Dame Towers, Basilique de Saint-Denis. 
    Free the 1st Sunday of every month from October 1st to May 31: Château de Rambouillet, Laiterie de la Reine et Pavillon des Coquillages, Château de Vincennes. 
    Free the 1st Sunday of every month from November 1st to March 31:  Château de Versailles & Trianon.  
     
  • MUSEUMS ALLWAYS FREE (Admission is always free in these museums,(only temporary exhibitions do charge admission): Musée Carnavalet, Musée du Petit Palais, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,  Musée Cognacq-Jay, Maison de Balzac, Maison de Victor Hugo, Musée Marie Curie, Musée de la Vie Romantique, Musée Zadkine, Maison de Bourdelle, Musée Cernuschi, Musée du Parfum-Fragonard/Théâtre musée des Capucines-Fragonard, Musée du Compagnonnage, Musée Jean Moulin, Musée de la Préfecture de Police, Musée Edith Piaf (open only by appointment, call  01-43-55-52-72).  
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  • MUSEUMS FREE THE 1ST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH : Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Picasso, Musée du Moyen Âge etThermes de Cluny), Musée de l’Orangerie, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Rodin, Musée Guimet  des Arts Asiatiques, Musée Delacroix, Musée Gustave Moreau, Musée de l’Assistance publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Musée de la Légion d’Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie, Cité de l’Architecture. 
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  • OPERA GARNIER 
  • OPERA BASTILLE : On some Saturdaysafternoons, the Opera Bastille offers a free lecture or a dance demonstration with some famous people involved in opera or ballet (this is called Pleins feux"). Your have to book free tickets in advance, but you can also enter without ticket. http://www.operadeparis.fr/Calendrier/?Saison=2007&Mois=9
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  • PARIS-PLAGE: 
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  • PARKS AND GARDENS
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  • UNESCO
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  • VILLAS, CITES FLEURIES 
  • VILLAGE ST PAUL 
  • VILLAGE SUISSE: The Swiss Village is a sort of permanent exhibition of antiques, with 150 shops owned by antique dealers and decoraters. Le Village Suisse, 78, avenue de Suffren et 54, avenue de la Motte-Picquet, 75015 Paris Métro: La Motte-Piquet Grenelle Open from Thursday to Mondy, from 11am to 7pm. http://www.levillagesuisseparis.com/  
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  • WALKS 
  • WATER: Water is drinkable everywhere in Paris (bathroom tap, public green fountains in gardens…). Have always a small plastic bottle with you and just refill it when you need. Except where the source is marked “eau non potable”. 
  • VIEW: breathtaking views on Paris from the top of the Galeries Lafayette or the Printemps, from the  Institut du monde arabe, from Belleville, from the esplanade du sacré coeur, view on the eiffel tower at dusk from the esplanade of the palais du chaillot. Metro: trocadero. 
  • WIFI:  La Ville de Paris équipe plus de 250 lieux de la capitale de 400 bornes WIFI. Vous pourrez bientôt surfer sur le web dans un jardin municipal, dans votre mairie, dans un musée de la Ville… http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=1&document_type_id=2&document_id=28640&portlet_id=815 
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  • WINE TESTING: La Dernière Goutte, 6 rue de Bourbon le Château 
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  • WINDOW SHOPPING: Paris is a paradise for window-shopping. If you are able to "touch with the eyes " only, that's free! 
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  • WANDERING:- Paris is a perfect city for aimless wandering
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