About Paris Festivals
(Paris, France)
Paris is without doubt one of the world's most impressive cultural centres, featuring some truly spectacular events all over the city, including music and dance festivals, sporting tournaments and seasonal fashion shows.
Popular festivals in Paris include the following events.
Annual Paris Festivals
- May: Paris Jazz festival, taking places at various central venues, with jazz musicians and performers arriving from all around the world
- June: French Open Tennis Championship, a particularly prominent and famous tennis tournament
- June: Paris Air Show, taking place every two years, showcases the latest offerings from the aerospace industry
- July: Bastille Day, held on July 14th each year, with colourful military parades and spectacular firework displays
- July: Tour de France, take place each summer around the month of July, probably the most famous cycle race in the world, watched by enormous crowds as its finished around the central streets of Paris and along the Champs-Elysées
- September: International Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show, an important and notable event in the fashion industry
- October: International Dance Festival, featuring music and dancing at various venues in central Paris
- December: New Year's Eve, with a range of parties heralding the arrival of the new year, with memorable festivities at the Paris Opera
Office de Tourisme Paris - Official Tourism Website
Website: www.parisinfo.com/
Pyramides Welcome Centre
Address: 25 Rue des Pyramides, 1er
Gare de Lyon Welcome Centre
Address: 20 Boulevard Diderot, 12e
Gare du Nord Welcome Centre
Address: 18 Rue de Dunkerque, 10e
Gare de l'Est Welcome Centre
Address: Place du 11 Novembre 1918, 10e
Paris Expo / Porte de Versailles Welcome Centre
Address: 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 15e
Anvers Welcome Centre
Address: Median Strip, opposite 72 Boulevard Rochechouart, 18e
