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Spring Trip: Paris and the charming district of Saint-Germain



There is no more beautiful season that spring to visit Paris , everything seems lighter ...

The soft colors of the city wake up and it gives happiness to anyone in the magic city. Parisian women seem, in their dress hats scarves and dresses, spring flowers.

Also Paris is the capital of artists: as Nietzsche said "As an artist, a man has no other country in Europe that Paris" .

The symbol of the cultural vitality of the city after the war is the district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

historic cafés, the first ray of sunshine that open onto squares and streets, boutiques and shops where you can find the most delicious unavailable, the high concentration of antique dealers and gallery owners, which makes it an air museum opened here this is Saint-Germain.

The Café de Flore (172 bd . Saint-Germain, www.cafedeflore.fr , time: 7-2), the birthplace of surrealism, and Les Deux Magots ( 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés , www.lesdeuxmagots.fr , hours: 7.30-1) are the two most famous places where they met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir , Picasso and Giacometti . In front of the Café de Flore find the Brasserie Lipp ( 151 bd. Saint-Germain; www.groupe-bertrand.com/lipp , time: 9-1), where they met Proust and Camus and today, Sofia Coppola and Jean Paul Gaultier . Continuing from

Brasserie on the left there l'église de St-Germain-des-Prés , one of the oldest churches in Paris and has undergone major changes ( 3 pl. St-Germain- des-Prés ; hours: 8-19.45).

From here you can reach Rue de Seine loved by Jacques Prévert, who dedicated a poem. At number 91 lived and died (December 1996) the "great" Marcello Mastroianni.

But in the district "must" visit the church of St-Sulpice : note the sundial in the form of an obelisk and every day of the year when the sun is directly overhead, its rays pass through a lens located in the south transept window and it touches the brass line, more or less near the obelisk at the time of year. In addition, the church was made even more famous by the novel by Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code" .

Nearby are the fascinating Jardin du Luxembourg homonymous Italian-style palazzo commissioned by Maria de 'Medici, here you can breathe the spring air of Paris. Do not miss

Place des Vosges (in Rue de Birague ), the Musée d'Orsay ( Rue de la Legion d'Honneur ) where you can admire the works of Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Rousseau, Van Gogh and many others.

Where:

on weekends in May with Ryanair (www.ryanair.com / en ):

This return Venice (Treviso) - Paris (Beauvais) from 74 € ;

is a / r Rome (Ciampino) - Paris (Beauvais) from 86 € ;

is a / r Milan (Bergamo)-Paris (Beauvais) from 63 € .

from Beauvais to Paris is expected to reach the shuttle bus (cost € 13)

On www.airfrance.it sometimes there are some deals mainly with departure from Milan.

Accommodation:

in St-Germain Hotel Delavigne , 1 Rue Casimir Delavigne and : on www.booking . with a double room at € 70 per person per night, up www.hoteldelavigne.com double room from € 60 per person per night (of course, prices vary greatly depending on season).

In Opera-Montmartre area is located the Hotel Marena , 27 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne : on www.edreams.it you can find a double room € 50 per person at night, or visit the website where you can find www.hotelmarena.com "promotion weekend" from 68 € per room (then 34 euro per person per night). Another proposal is

Villa Opera Lamartine Hotel , 39 Rue Lamartine : http://villa-opera-lamartine.hotel-rn.com/ , double room from € 91 (€ 45.50 per person per night).

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