If it rains all three days in Paris. Rainy Paris: incredible photos by Christophe Jacrot. ideas for how to entertain yourself in Paris during the rain

But, unfortunately, it is located in the north and not so far from the sea. Not London of course, but It rains here quite often.

And what should you do if rain catches you while traveling in this beautiful city? After all, you don’t want to waste precious time...

5 ideas for entertaining yourself in Paris during the rain!

The first thing to take care of if you are planning a trip during the notoriously rainy months is to book good hotel at a good price in the city center. Personally, I use for these purposes websitetrivago(independent hotel price search engine). On the website trivago.ru you can see a list of hotels, as well as compare prices from various hotel booking sites. By studying reviews and looking at photos, you will surely find a suitable hotel at an affordable price.

It's best in the center. I'll explain why!

Then, in case of inclement weather, the main attractions and places that you will learn about in this article will not be so far from you, which will give you a good advantage when moving around the city.

1. Take shelter from the weather with hot chocolate at Angelina’s

"Angelina" is a little more than a simple tea salon.

Opened according to an original concept by an Austrian at the beginning of the 20th century, this salon immediately became a symbol of refinement and good taste in Paris.

Well, besides, I have personal, especially warm feelings for this establishment, because my

Once you get comfortable in the armchairs of the Belle Epoque interior, you will quickly forget that it is wet and raining outside.

Where is:

226 rue de Rivoli, 75001
Metro Tuileries
Open all days from 8 to 19.00
Phone:01 42 60 82 00

2. You can go and “shiver” at Manoir de Paris

If you like rainy-dull weather and the corresponding mood, then you can aggravate it even more and go to the terrible Manoir de Paris.

During your walk, you will see a dozen performances of dark stories about Paris, designed to frighten you, excite you and provoke goosebumps.

All productions are performed by real live (!) actors. Everything here is done to make you feel as bad as possible, and the figures jumping out of nowhere will certainly pierce the most insensitive nature.

After visiting this dark establishment, even rain on a gloomy street will seem like a joy to you. No more words, see the rest for yourself!

Practical information:

Manoir de Paris
18 rue du Paradis, 75010
Metro Château d’Eau or Gare de l’Est
Tariff:20€

3. Half a day in English surroundings

It’s raining, you want to go out somewhere for the benefit of your mind, you say, because Paris is a city of museums.

And you'll be right.

I especially like the museum in the English warm style - Gallery of Evolution, with its wooden shelves, parquet floors, a huge glass roof... All this, coupled with the rain drumming on the stained glass windows, creates a very English atmosphere.

In addition, there is something to catch your eye on - the origin story modern species animals, skeletons and models of those that have already disappeared... You will also really like this museum

Practical information:

Jardin des Plantes
36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 75005
Metro Censier Daubenton or Jussieu
Open all days except Tuesday from 10 to 18.00
Tariff 7€

4. Change the rainy gray sky to black but with stars - Planetarium

A good way to escape the rain is to simply change the sky!

“It’s not that simple,” you say. No, it’s a piece of cake, we answer.

Just stop by Palais de la Découverte and attend a session in the planetarium located in the dome of the building. The stars overhead will make you forget about the clouds above the sky of Paris.

In the planetarium you can see what the sky will look like in thousands of years, an eclipse of the sun and moon, and admire the view of the earth from other planets of the solar system.

Practical information:

Palais de la Découverte
Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008
Metro Champs Elysées Clémenceau
Phone: 01 56 43 20 20

5. Walk through the covered galleries

I think you will understand why I suggest you pass the rainy time with a walk through the galleries (or arcades) with small elegant boutiques...

After all, here all the decor and the air itself are filled with the 19th century, its aura and vibes. This is a real walk in time.

Or the galleries St Marc, Montmartre, Variétés.

How to get there and where it is:

Quartier Bourse, Richelieu Drouot and Grands Boulevards
75009, Metro Bourse, Richelieu Drouot

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Immediately after returning from Paris, I admitted that I never caught my sense of the City. After all, at times there was a feeling of complete delight, and then I grabbed the phone and answered messages with sincere assurances that Paris is the city in which you, exactly you, feel like the queen of the world! But first: Paris? France? Great! And where is the fairy tale here?! Show me how to get there. Now I can definitely say that Paris doesn’t let me go. And the more time passes since my return, the more clearly I understand that I want to return.
I always start getting to know the city with a walk. Not with bus tour and the patter of the guide, trying to immediately show that he knows everything. From a walk without a route or goal. Although no, the goal is clear - to see the city and feel it. But no prepared route. Spring Paris greeted with coolness and light rain, which was what I wanted: bright greenery, blooming lilacs and freshness, and then a pleasant evening - all ordered by an interested traveler.

So, 10 things to do in Paris (what, any guidebook can do it, but I can’t?)

1. After getting enough sleep (which is not difficult, since the time is two hours different from St. Petersburg - you get up, but it’s still early), go out into the street and walk through the waking up Paris to the nearest cafe (on the Grand Boulevards, where our hotel was located, this is not problem). Ask or show on the menu for coffee with croissants and juice and enjoy for a long time, absorbing it all at a table on the terrace. Repeat these steps every morning, forgetting that breakfast is waiting for you at the hotel. Can be repeated in different cafes. Remember, breakfast is available in every hotel, and coffee with fresh croissants with chocolate or cream is only available in Paris in a street cafe! And in the evening, try a variety of French cheeses with dry red wine and look at the enchanting Louvre. And be sure to choose an evening and go to the Lido, for example. The performance lasts two hours and costs 100 euros. It's really worth it! All eyes were glued to the stage, only interrupting from time to time (while the girls were changing clothes) for the obligatory champagne at the performance. In general, two hours flew by unnoticed.

2. On any sunny (an indispensable condition) day, go look at Paris and the Seine dividing the city into two parts from the very different heights. Start from the Arc de Triomphe, the climb costs 9 euros and here it is much easier, like our St. Isaac's Cathedral, perhaps. Climbing to the observation deck of the Arc de Triomphe, you can view Paris, twelve streets radiating from the square. Count them, otherwise suddenly there are fewer of them, you can expect everything from these tourists, maybe they’ve already been stolen away for souvenirs. We raise our heads to the sky and for a long time we cannot take our eyes off the fantastic clouds over Paris! Be sure to follow the “royal axis” - a straight line starting from the Louvre, then going through the pyramid, the central alley of the Tuileries Garden, the Luxor Obelisk on the Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysees to La Défense. This is exactly why I insist on a sunny day! After the Arc de Triomphe, go to the Ile de la Cité to the main pearl of Paris - Notre Dame Cathedral. Be sure to go inside, the line goes very quickly, and fall in love with the heaviness and majesty of the French Middle Ages. The cathedral was built in the XII-XIII centuries! Then walk along the façade of the cathedral through a small garden and go to the Ile Saint-Louis, where you can buy the most delicious ice cream in Paris, and therefore in Europe, from Berthillion. Walk a little along the main street in Saint-Louis. And don’t rush to buy ice cream on the left as you go; further down the street on the right is the real Berthillion, not the one designed for tourists. And if you haven’t tried Berthillion’s ice cream, your trip to Paris was in vain! Then, happily sighing with pleasure, return to Notre Dame from the other side and get stuck in line for an hour and a half for the cathedral towers. The line moves slowly as tourists are admitted in small groups every ten minutes. Don’t doubt it, you definitely need to do this, then you’ll regret it: what’s an hour and a half of time if you can climb to the very top of the south tower of Notre Dame! A kind person will give you a plan while you are standing in line and brief information about the cathedral in Russian is completely free, but for the ticket you will pay 7.50 euros. First stop in the hall north tower, and then a gallery of chimeras. The height here is 46 meters (for comparison, Observation deck The Arc de Triomphe is located at an altitude of 50 meters). On the right is Striga, the most famous of all chimeras, the brooding owner of a protruding tongue. Look at Paris spread out before you through the eyes of a striga, that’s someone you can even envy! Having enjoyed the view of Paris and the very bell that the unfortunate Quasimodo rang every day, we rise 69 meters above Paris - to the top of the south tower of Notre Dame. Here you no longer feel like a striga, but like a bird! Then you realize that this will be one of the best impressions about Paris!

3. On a bright sunny day, come to the Ile de la Cité to the Church of Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel). Do not take piercing or cutting objects with you, otherwise they will not be allowed inside. Not for the sake of the chapel, of course, it’s just located in the courtyard of the Palace of Justice. A visit to Sainte-Chapelle is included in the museum card, otherwise 7.50 euros. Without stopping on the first floor of the chapel, climb the narrow corner staircase to the second and freeze in the multi-colored rays of the sun playing on the medieval stained glass windows. Flaming Gothic. XIII century. The vault seems to float above the huge stained glass windows. It seems to you that ten minutes have passed, but in fact you, with your mouth open, have been sitting for about an hour. It's time to force yourself to get up and leave the Sainte-Chapelle. Cross the bridge and slowly walk along the Seine, admiring the medieval walls of the Conciergerie prison. And on the embankment, where you walk towards the Louvre, is the most famous flower market. And don’t forget, if this walk is at the end of April, that in France there is a tradition of buying bouquets of lilies of the valley on May 1st! And there the Louvre and the Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois are already nearby; it was its bells that became the signal for St. Bartholomew’s Night. Walk to the pyramid and sit down by the fountain, dipping your hand into the cool water of the pool. Listen to the sound of water and voices speaking a variety of languages.

4. Any day except Monday, go to the Orsay Museum and the Rodin Museum. It’s easier to first get to the Rodin Museum by walking from the Seine embankment to rue de Varenne, and it’s also more logical. At the Rodin Museum, buy a double ticket to visit two museums on the same day for 12 euros, saving money and time. Take a long and happy walk through the museum park, repeat the pose of the famous “The Thinker” and a couple of other sculptures, and then go to the museum itself to look at Rodin’s “The Kiss”. Then (better if it’s already afternoon) take a walk to the Orsay Museum, quickly get inside (you already have a ticket) and take a plan of the exhibition in Russian. Who goes where, and first of all, Gustav Klimt, Van Gogh and Claude Monet are waiting for me. In general, if you go on a trip to the places of paintings by Claude Monet, then the Orsay Museum, the Marmottan-Monet Museum and the Orangerie Museum will be on the program. Exactly in that order! To start with the Monet on the ground floor and the Monet on the upper level terrace of Orsay and continue by reaching Marmottan Monet. There is even a feeling of déjà vu here, looking at the London Parliament in the fog, the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare and the Rouen Cathedral, and water lilies appear here!

Rodin Museum. Musée Rodin. Address: 79, rue de Varenne. You can get to the Varenne metro station (line 13) or walk from the Invalides, from Place Concorde across the bridge along rue de Bourgogne. http://www.musee-rodin.fr

Orsay Museum. Musée d'Orsay. Address: 1, rue Bellechasse. The museum is located on the banks of the Seine between the Pont de la Concorde and the Pont Royal opposite the Tuileries. You can get to the Concorde metro station (lines 1 and 8). http://www.musee-orsay.fr

Marmottan-Monet Museum. Address: 2, rue Louis-Boilly. There is no way to do without the metro - go to La Muette station (line 9) and walk a little towards the Bois de Boulogne along rue de la Muette. The ticket costs 8 euros. http://www.marmottan.com

By the way, about museums. Museums in Paris great amount: from the world's first Louvre to the drainage museum. We must proceed from our own interests, among mine were the old Dutch and Germans, of course, Italians, as well as Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt and, to satisfy our own interests, Rodin. So, in St. Petersburg, five museums were identified that are impossible to pass by - the Louvre, the Rodin Museum and the Orsay Museum, the Orangerie Museum and the Marmottan-Monet Museum. Guides advise going with a group using museum maps; guidebooks urge you to go in the morning to have time to stand in lines. I do not agree! Museum cards, of course, allow you to save money on tickets, but not all museums can be visited with them, and the validity period of the museum card is limited. Walking with a group is the biggest mistake: do you actually want to run past several “promoted” exhibits? And about the queues. No need to run to the museum in the morning and stand in a long line. In the afternoon there are no queues; in extreme cases, you wait for ten minutes. I don’t like and don’t know how to go to museums with a group, so I went alone and had great fun.

5. On Wednesday or Friday, go to the Louvre after 18.00 - not to save three euros on the difference in tickets, but to avoid tourists and leave the museum at about eight in the evening. Two hours in the Louvre is the minimum, and only just for one time, to see, for example, Bosch’s “Ship of Fools” or to go to the most famous Italian masterpieces. After slowly drinking coffee in a cafe under Carousel Square and admiring the famous building, which many may remember from the last shots of The Da Vinci Code - a descending glass pyramid and a small stone one rising towards it, go to the even more famous building of an American architect of Chinese origin Yeo Ming Lei. And then go along the Seine embankment to the Pont Alexandre III (and it doesn’t look that much like our Trinity Bridge!), keeping a straight line towards the Eiffel Tower. As you approach, you will be surprised how the illumination becomes brighter and the tower itself becomes increasingly larger, it would seem that it is just a stone's throw away (an optical illusion, from the Pont Alexandre III to Eiffel Tower still walk for half an hour). And finally, at about ten o’clock in the evening, near the bridge, see how the miracle of Gustave Eiffel shimmers with running lights. If you haven’t seen this, consider that you’ve never been to Paris!

Louvre. Musée du Louvre. 75058 Paris Cedex 01. http://www.louvre.fr
Probably every St. Petersburg resident has at least once heard the classic phrase that if you stand in front of each Hermitage exhibit for two minutes, it will take you 15 years. So, the Louvre is much, that is, very much, larger! It is impossible to see everything in the Louvre! And why? Tourists are shown three famous hits: the Nike of Samothrace, Aphrodite de Milo and the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, as well as French painting, mainly classicism. The Louvre is open from 9.00 to 18.00, but twice a week, on Wednesday and Friday, it is open until 22.00, and the ticket price on these days after 18.00 is not 9 euros, but 6. You must be prepared for the fact that the Louvre is a very masterpiece loads, and it’s impossible to go anywhere else after it. Evening after six is the most convenient time for the Louvre! And there are practically no groups moving in crowds along a given route! In addition, on the first Sunday of the month, admission to the Louvre, like many other museums, is free. And one more thing: in order to avoid the long line at the Louvre, the tail of which wraps around the pyramid, you need to go down at the Carousel arch under the square and go to the entrances to the museum (I read about this here, thanks for the advice). The Louvre, like every museum, has a plan of exhibitions (and in Orsay, Sainte-Chapelle, Notre-Dame and the Arc de Triomphe - in Russian). We take the plan and sit on the bench. What do you want to see at the Louvre? I already knew about this in St. Petersburg: the Dutch and Germans of the 15th-16th centuries, the Italians. Anyone interested in ancient Egypt or antiquity, the Etruscans or Babylon, French and other paintings will also satisfy their needs without any problems! Having figured out the plan and noted the exhibitions, you can choose the staircase where to go - if the Italians, as well as Aphrodite and Nikoi, then the Denon wing, and if the Dutch and Germans, then to the second floor of the opposite wing of Richelieu. Raphael and Botticelli, Paolo Veronese, Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci - on your first visit to the Louvre, and you no longer have the strength, emotions go wild. For the second visit, paintings by Lucas Carnach the Elder and Holbein the Younger, a self-portrait of Albrecht Durer with a holly branch and Bosch's "Ship of Fools" (rooms 8 and 10) were left. This was my first time seeing Bosch in person (there is only one small work by the artist’s school in the Hermitage), and even the grotesque “Ship of Fools”, the symbolism of each element! He alone definitely needs a second day at the Louvre!

6. Leave the hotel at any time of the day, morning or evening, as long as it rains! There is no Paris without rain! Or you were in some other city. Meet the first May thunderstorm and walk without an umbrella in the rain, and then drink a glass of wine and look at blurred Paris behind the wall-length glass of a cafe. And it doesn’t even matter what the spring rain washes away - Notre Dame or the Louvre, Montmartre or the Opera Garnier. It is here and now that you will definitely understand that you are in Paris.

7. Absolutely any day, also not too early (let other tourists feel the joy of morning queues at museums first), and even after lunch, go to the Orangerie Museum! You've already been to the Orsay Museum, but this is different. Spend an hour and a half in two oval halls with Monet's water lilies. “He caught the light and threw it onto the canvas,” someone said about Monet’s painting. And it is impossible to disagree with these words. Then go out to the Place de la Concorde, sigh, and remember the fate of the unfortunate Louis XVI, who was executed here. “There was a guillotine over there,” two guides cheerfully show different places on the square, and the Parisians are generally surprised that this could happen here. How can you not remember what could happen if your grandfather carelessly said: “After us there might be a flood!” Be more attentive to your relatives! After admiring the Roman fountains and making sure that ours, Peterhof’s, are the best after the Roman ones, take the metro to the Trocadero station, cross the Seine and stop on the central terrace of the Chaillot Palace - this is where the Eiffel Tower is most spectacular. In addition, this is where the most successful photographs from the series “I am holding the Eiffel Tower”, “I can accidentally drop the Eiffel Tower”, “me and my friends around the Eiffel Tower” and others are obtained. Now go ahead, there is always a line, but in the evening it goes faster. You buy a ticket for 8.20 euros and, having already gone inside, you discover that with this ticket you go up to the first and second levels on foot, and from the second to the third - by elevator. Having risen to 57 meters, you feel happiness and incredible pride, and easily overcome the steps to the second level (height from the ground 115 meters). This is where the “I’m holding on to the mesh of the Eiffel Tower” photos appear, because without holding on to something, it’s impossible to stand. But everything is redeemed by the sensation of climbing 160 meters to the third level in the elevator. Evening has already come, you watch the sun set over the edge of Paris, and then, moving past the same lucky people, you find out that St. Petersburg is 2169 kilometers away, and the Parisians did not indicate the distance to Moscow. Using the same ticket, you go back down the elevator all 276 meters, forgetting how difficult your journey was. walking tour to the tower.

Orangerie Museum. Musee de l'Orangerie. The museum is located in the Tuileries Gardens, on the corner of the Seine embankment and the Place de la Concorde. The ticket costs 7.50 euros.

8. Take a walk along the Right Bank and be sure not only along the streets, but also across the passages to get to the entrance to the Palais Royal, unknown to tourists. Sit on a chair by the fountain in the garden, and then walk to the striped columns of different heights. Be amazed and take pictures while sitting, standing and balancing on different columns. By the way, while balancing on one of the columns, you can sing the cardinal’s song from the film “D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”: “To me, your name is heavenly manna. Let someone else call you Your Majesty! Oh, let me just call you Anna,” and so on , because the palace was built by order of Cardinal Richelieu. And also find one of the columns, which is located below ground level, surrounded by water, and hit it with some small coin. A sure sign that you will return to Paris.

9. Go for a walk through the streets of Montmartre to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, marveling at how its color changes under the sun's rays. Sitting on the stairs, look at Paris from a 127-meter hill and think only about pleasant things. Walk to the Moulin Rouge and remember the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. Then take a walk to Place Tartre, look at souvenirs and buy an illustration of a poster for the Chat Noir cabaret (“ Black cat"), find a real 14th century mill turned into a restaurant, remembering Renoir and "Amelie", photograph the last vineyard in Paris.

10. Start your last day in Paris with the Luxembourg Gardens and relaxing in a comfortable chair by the Medici Fountain. Dream about Florence and Italy in general, looking at the palace of Maria de Medici, built in the style of the Pitti Palace, looking at the blooming pink and white chestnut trees. And then walk around the most favorite places in Paris, absolutely not in a hurry.

And may you leave with the fact that you didn’t see everything in Paris, but you still captured the main thing!

The capital of France these days is more reminiscent of Venice. Due to heavy rains that have not stopped for several weeks, two dozen departments are already in the flood zone. The water level in the Seine is approaching five and a half meters. Residents are being evacuated from flooded houses. French museums are also under threat; the lower level of the Louvre is already closed. Meanwhile, with big water a new misfortune came - the city was captured by rats. At the same time, meteorologists note that the peak of the flood is still ahead.

“Thank you for visiting” - the welcome sign sticks out helplessly from under the water. The Seine is advancing on Paris. The river level continues to rise at a rate of two centimeters per hour. Houseboats, barges and cafes are being held hostage. River traffic has been stopped. The metro line and the RER high-speed train, whose routes stretch along the river, will not operate for at least a week. Underground, the Seine is already flooding the platforms. Outside, there is also no way to pass or pass. Traffic along the embankments is blocked. Stone stairs lead to nowhere, and in place of sidewalks there are only the tops of lampposts.

“Two years ago we celebrated our wedding anniversary here, drinking champagne on a bench. And now there is water all around. You can't even see that bench. So strange and sad,” says Debbie Komorowski.

Muddy water is also approaching the main museums of the French capital. The lower level of the Oriental Arts Department of the Louvre is closed. Employees are preparing to evacuate exhibits, as in Orsay. Visitors are no longer allowed into the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral and the Champ de Mars. But it seems that for tourists, and for the townspeople themselves, now the main attraction is not the Louvre or Orsay, but the city itself, plunging into the Seine. Here is the park in front of the Pont Neuf, oldest bridge in Paris almost completely went under water.

Zouave. The longer it rains, the more often Parisians use this word. We are talking about a statue that people use to measure when to pack their suitcases. The Zouave is already half under water. Local journalists monitor the statue and report around the clock to see if the soldier has escaped into the Seine.

But a new sight is not for the faint of heart - hordes of rats. As usual, they are fleeing from the sinking embankment. And without natural disasters - a pressing issue for the city. There are two rats for every Parisian. Fleeing from the water, the rodents rushed into the streets. A video is gaining popularity on the Internet: a garbage man filmed a bin infested with rodents. The authorities are reassuring that there are no more rats, they are just being seen more often.

The cause of flooding in the middle of winter is incessant rainfall. Meteorological services called January the rainiest in the last hundred years. Floods occur in two dozen departments of France, this is most of the country. The alarm level has been raised to the penultimate level, orange. South of Paris is one of the epicenters.

Swans usually swim in the middle of the river, but today they swim where the roadway and sidewalks used to be. Literally 20 kilometers from Paris, several cities were flooded. Hundreds of residents were evacuated; the water was rising so quickly that not everyone had time to collect their belongings or, for example, repark their cars.

The last time France found itself under water was just two years ago. No one expected that the Seine would overflow its banks again so quickly. Many have only recently recovered from previous floods. Once again, soldiers and police take out residents on boats.

"This is my home. At first the water rose slowly, and then at one moment it was already here. I measured it - yesterday the water in the house had already risen by 70 centimeters. I had to leave and take all my things to the second floor,” say residents of the suburb.

“I decided to stay in the house to meet overnight guests if necessary. Many have left, an empty street is a great chance for looters. I have already seen some of the characters - they walk around and look closely. That’s why we decided to stay,” says local Fabio.

By the weekend, weather forecasters predict that the 30-year-old record will be broken in Paris. No one can predict how the river will behave further. The rains continue.

A walk through rainy Paris.

Whenever I came to Paris, I was constantly unlucky with the weather, sometimes I got into a terrible cold at Christmas, then in the fall and spring I was in a period of incessant rain

Therefore, the associations I have with Paris are not festive, but rather sad-sentimental-blues (Blues, by the way, translated means blue melancholy), although anyone who happened to visit London this week will most likely also be left with an unpleasantly depressive feeling from Foggy Albion

But if anyone is interested in looking at sad Paris, below is a photo report

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I do not deny at all that the atmosphere of the great city, glorified by poets and artists, writers and musicians (see pictures here), can be understood by living in it or wandering for a long time in specific back streets, but the expression “See Paris and die” is fundamentally wrong (IMHO). I was not so impressed by this famous city that I would fall in love with it, as I expected after looking at the paintings and photographs of amazing masters. Is it beautifully decorated, or is it only painted in the summer?

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But the atmosphere, of course, is something that cannot be taken away, cannot be conveyed, how can you betray the smells? And I also constantly get lost and wander later in search of a hotel in this city, where all the houses are beautiful twin brothers, but from each square and from shopping center(for example, Galleries-Lafayette) there are about a dozen identical streets fanning out, but it’s raining, and you can’t tell the cardinal direction by the sun, and passersby always point in the wrong direction. But museums, cafes and restaurants, shops and carousels with Holiday sales, illumination - all this is at the service of tourists in any weather. Notre-Dame de Paris, the Seine embankment, the Pont des Arts, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe in the photographs I was able to take

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Place du Trocadéro (built for the 1937 World's Fair) offers views across the river and the Jena Bridge to the Eiffel Tower, the Champs de Mars and the Ecole Militaire. From the tower you can see the long park of the Champ de Mars, which leads to the Military School building.

In the Chaillot Palace, erected for an exhibition in the best traditions of Stalinist classicism, there is a theater, one of the halls of the French Cinematheque and two museums: the anthropological Museum of Man (Mus"e de l'Homme) and the Naval Museum (Mus"e de la Marine) .

In the repertoire national theater Chaillot commercial hits for the general public. The Museum of Man is part of the National Museum natural history. The main object of the exhibition is man from an anthropological, paleontological, ethnological point of view.

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Below: photo by Christophe Jacrot in the theme of Parisian rain

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Next is a photo of a tourist like me who experienced rainy Paris...

There was no line inside and you couldn’t take pictures with flash. A huge building that absorbs you, high arches, colored stained glass windows, bas-reliefs. As we toured one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, the service, or mass, as an atheist can be forgiven for being confused, began.

Les Invalides and Napoleon's burial place

Through the Tuileries Garden, by Champs Elysees walked to the triumphal arch.

Are you already a little tired of cathedrals and shops?

By the way, the question of what to do in Paris in the rain always remains relevant, because if the sun is shining in the morning, this does not mean that it will not rain in 2 hours.

And vice versa, and at any time of the year, mind you.

And the changeable Parisian weather is one of the reasons why I don’t like to buy tickets to somewhere in advance (Eiffel Tower or Disneyland, for example).

It can always rain and ruin the experience.

There is, of course, the option of going to some non-traditional museum, which I wrote about, but here are a few more ideas for walking around Paris without getting wet feet.

Parisian passages

Passages for me are a song, a fairy tale, a miracle! So they were just created for rainy and inclement weather.

At the beginning of the 19th century, when there was not only asphalt, but also cobblestone streets, it was often possible to spend almost the whole day in the arcades without getting your feet wet.

Passages are covered streets or passages between streets, if you like, along which you can sometimes walk quite far, moving parallel to the main street, but almost without going outside.

Here, of course, you need to know where the entrance is and where the exit is, where the passage leads and where you still have to go out into the rain, but sometimes only in order to enter another passage.

Galerie Vivien, Arcade Geoffroy, Arcade Panorama

And this falls into the category of those little Parisian secrets that are not revealed immediately and are not interesting to everyone. But if you have time, desire and curiosity...

What is in the passages? Now there are mainly cafes and shops (mostly antiques, books, souvenirs, handicrafts).

The cost is usually higher, but no one forces you to buy: you can just wander around, look, and observe life.

It is curious that all the passages are located only on the right bank of the Seine.

It is interesting that in the passages you will find not only establishments for tourists, but also entrances to hotels and just entrances to residential buildings. Everyday life goes on as usual.

Aquarium of Paris

What you can do in Paris in the rain, even when it pours like buckets, is to challenge fate and go to a place where the inhabitants are wet by definition.

At the Paris Aquarium (Aquarium de Paris-Cinéaqua ) in dryness and comfort, you can see exotic fish, and you won’t even remember about the rain, because there are no windows to the street.

By the way, regardless of the weather, this is also a good place to visit with children, which is located not far from the Eiffel Tower.

The aquarium is located at 5, Avenue Albert de Mun in the 16th arrondissement of Paris near Trocadéro .

Aquaboulevard

Or you can go for a swim in the Parisian Aquaboulevard yourself. That's exactly what it's called Aquaboulevard, not a water park. Of course, we also have water parks.

But again, Aquaboulevard is suitable for visiting with children or if your stay in Paris is 10 days or more. Sometimes you need to give physical rest to your legs and body and psychological rest to yourself, so as not to die from the abundance of impressions.

You can get to Aqua Boulevard by metro (line 8), stop Balard. When exiting the carriage, look at the plan on the platform wall and the signs.

After exiting the metro, you need to walk a little further to the Aquaboulevard building, which is large complex with gyms, shops, cafes and a cinema.

Catacombs of Paris

Apparently a simple idea! If it rains above our heads, we decide to seek shelter underground!

The old Parisian underground quarries, located in the 14th arrondissement, are connected by a number of galleries, from which are accessible on a 1.7 km guided tour.

In the eighteenth century they were converted into a crypt to bury the remains of six million Parisians transferred from other cemeteries.

Manoir de Paris

Lovers of something mysterious and mythical in rainy and stormy weather can visit the new and unusual Le Manoir de Paris - a Parisian museum that opened relatively recently - in 2011.

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