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Culture Click here for more images Parisians feel almost the same passion for the culture to the restaurants. The arts and culture are a huge support from the French government, which is responsible for funding the arts, protect the French cinema of Hollywood imports and promote massive projects as the new Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Quai François Mauriac,Website: http://www.bnf.fr/). The Opéra Bastille (see below Music) opened in 1989 in the bicentennial Day Bastille, but since then it has ceased to challenge their design and the quality of their productions. Other places to see opera, ballet and concerts are the Palais des Congrès, 2 place de la Porte-Maillot, 17th District (tel: (01) 4068 0005, Website: http://www.palaisdescongres-paris.com/) , and the huge Palais des Sports Porte de Versailles, 15th District (tel: (01) 4828 4010, Website: http://www.palaisdessports.com/). Any input is available at FNAC Forum des Halles, 1 rue Pierre Lescot, 1st District (tel: (01) 4041 4000, Website: http://www.fnac.com/) or FNAC Musique, 2 rue Charenton, 12th District (tel: (01) 4342 0404). There is also a Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 1st District (tel: (01) 4316 4747, Website: http://www.carrouseldulouvre.fr/), located in the basement of the Louvre, or Virgin Megastore, 52 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 8th District (tel: (01) 4953 5000, Website: http://www.virginmega.fr/). No matter how long the queue for the opera or concerts, avoid the resale of tickets, as they are more expensive and often false. Cultural event listings are in Pariscope (Website: http://www.pariscope.com/) and L'Officiel des Spectacles. Classical music concerts are listed each month in Le Monde de la Musique. Cultural events Paris has a wide range and a variety of lively festivals. Among these, there are some that are held throughout the city and they are free: Fete de la Musique (June 21; website: http://www.fetedelamusique.culture.fr/), Festival du Film de Paris (early April; website: http://www.festivaldufilmdeparis.com/) and the Festival d'Automne (September to December; website: http://www.festival-automne.com/). The Festival d'Art Sacré is a series of free concerts held in the churches of the city during the weeks before Christmas. Music In Paris Opéra (tel: (08) 9289 9090; website: http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/) are represented ballets and opera. In Opéra Garnier, Place de l'Opéra, 9th district and Opera Bastille, place de la Bastille, 12th District (The tickets cost 30 € to 110 €). The great opera productions are also represented in Châtelet Théâtre Musical de Paris, 1 place du Châtelet, 1st (tel: (01) 4028 2840; website: http://www.chatelet-theatre.com/). The varied program of the Cité de la Musique in La Villette (website: http://www.cite-musique.fr/) has entrees in contemporary music and is home to the internationally acclaimed Ensemble Intercontemporain (website: http: / / www.ensembleinter.com/). Also organized concerts of early music, jazz, chanson and world music. The Cité has two concert halls: the Conservatoire National de Musique, 209 avenue Jean Jaurès, 19th District (tel: (01) 4040 4545), and the Salle des Concerts, 221 avenue Jean Jaurès, 19th District (tel: (01 ) 4484 4484). Some big names in contemporary classical and experimental music to French to follow the track are Pierre Boulez, Pascal Dusapin and Luc Ferrarie. Orchestre Colonne Orchestras as (Website: http://www.orchestrecolonne.fr/), Orchestre Lamoureux (website: http://www.orchestrelamoureux.com/) and Orchestre de Paris (website: http://www . orchestredeparis.com /) are headquartered in Salle Pleyel, 252 rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré, 8th District (tel: (01) 4561 5300). Other prestigious places to enjoy classical music concerts are the Salle Gaveau, 45 rue de la Boétie, 8th District (tel: (01) 4953 0507), the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 15 avenue Montaigne, 8th District (tel: ( 01) 4952 5050; website: http://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/), and Théâtre Musical de Paris, 1 place du Châtelet, 1st District (tel: (01) 4028 2840, website: http:// www.chatelet-theatre.com/). Teatro La Comédie Française, 1 place de Colette, 1st District (tel: (01) 4458 1515 Website: http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/), is the national theater, has a reputation for producing classic . In the Théâtre National de la Colline, 15 rue Malte-Brun, 20th District (tel: (01) 4462 5252) French contemporary works are represented. New talents are often found in fringe theaters, such as the Guichet-Montparnasse, 15 rue du Maine, 14th District (tel: (01) 4327 8861). Peter Brook is in the Bouffes du Nord, 37 bis boulevard de la Chapelle, 10th District (tel: (01) 4607 3450). The Odéon, 1 place de l'Odéon, 6th District (tel: (01) 4485 4000; website: http://www.theatre-odeon.fr/) hosts productions in foreign languages. Dance Dance The main center is the Opéra Garnier (see above Music). Other major productions are represented in the prestigious Théâtre de la Ville, 2 place du Châtelet, District 4 (tel: (01) 4274 2277; website: http://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/), which is shown Often the work of great choreographers as Karine Saporta, Maguy Marin and Pina Bausch. The other room of the theater, Les Abbesses, has the same direction at 31 rue des Abbesses, District 18. The Théâtre Musical de Paris (see above Music) hosts ballet companies abroad. Film The first public screening of a film ('Le train entrant in gare') was carried out by the Lumiere brothers in Paris in 1895. Today, Paris is still a significant capital for the film, which projects more than 300 movies a week. No city cinema passes English-language films, but most of the films are in original language with French subtitles. UGC (http://www.ugc.fr/) has a significant presence in Paris and has the largest cinema complex in the city with 18 rooms: UGC Ciné Cité Bercy, 2 cours St-Emilion, 12th District (tel: (08 ) 9270 0000). There is also another multiplex with 16 screens Ciné Cité UGC Les Halles, place de la Rotonde, Nouveau Forum des Halles, 1st District (tel: (08) 9270 0000). Although they keep appearing and Gaumonts UGC cinemas around town (mostly located on the Champs Elysees and Montparnasse), Paris still boils with small arthouse cinemas concentrated in arrondissements 5th and 6th. Among these include Le Champo, 51 rue des Ecoles, 5th District (tel: (01) 4354 5160; website: http://www.lechampo.com/), next to the Sorbonne, Odéon Racine, 6 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 6th District (tel: (0892) 68 9325), known for films happen overnight. Some cinemas are worth a visit purely for its decoration, as kitsch Le Grand Rex, 1 boulevard Poisssonnière, 2nd District (tel: (01) 4508 9358; website: http://www.legrandrex.com/). Some recent films as Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'or Amelie Poulain, 2001), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who also directed Delicatessen in 1991, or Moulin Rouge (2001), directed by Baz Luhtmann, are set in Montmartre and were a hit at the box office worldwide. Literary Notes: Both written and oral literature collected long coffee gatherings on the left bank of the Seine, which for decades has fueled a mythical image of Paris that visitors still searching. The historical novel by Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), recreates the fifteenth century Paris and Les Miserables (1862) is set in the slums of a Paris plagued by poverty. Hemingway's work Ernerst A Moveable Feast (1964) describes the bohemian Paris between the wars. Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939) by Henry Miller describe a sexy city. A reflective image is described by Anais Nin in his works intertwined. For Nin, Paris was the place where he could develop his sexuality and his less perverse creativity. George Orwell portrays the poverty of the 20's in and Out in Paris and London (1933). 

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 They may perceive traces of heroes and heroines of literature, and their fictional creations throughout the city in the persistent smoke Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Boulevard St-Germain in the 6th district, which staged the angry discussions between Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir. James Joyce used to frequent the chic Le Fouquet's, 99 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 8th district, while the celebrated Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Oscar Wilde came to Le Procope, 13 rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie in the 6th district. Ernest Hemingway used to dine at The Cloiserie des Lilas, 171 boulevard du Montparnasse, 6th district, frequented even by people in the publishing world, while Samuel Beckett's favorite bar was Le Select, 99 boulevard du Montparnasse, 6th district. The pilgrimage par excellence is the Pere Lachaise cemetery, where they allegedly lying medieval lovers Abelard and Heloise. His remains rest in the good company of the seventeenth century playwright, Molière, La Fontaine story writer, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Champollion, Delacroix, Ingres, Géricault, Bizet, Balzac, Proust, Colette and Edith Piaf. The contemporary poet, singer and icon Jim Morrison was buried in the cemetery in 1971. Zade's novel (2004) by Heather Reyes is located in Père Lachaise and stars the ghosts of Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde. 

BERLIN

The move to Berlin
In Berlin, where time runs rapidly, has been born in recent years a great art scene that has spread throughout Germany. Thus Berlin has become the capital of contemporary art. The remodeling of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, a large industrial building converted into a temple of contemporary art.
Alongside Berlin neighborhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg have proliferated galleries internationally recognized. Between the Spree and Kupfergraben RIIO is the Museum Island complex which houses interesting archeological remains (Pergamon Museum, and Bode Museum) and Art S. XIX (Old National Gallery). The many museums of Berlin house within its walls history, art, and conocimieto and forming a unique landscape on museums.
The numbers make it clear: Berlin's three opera houses, over 150 theaters and stages, more than 175 museums and collections, around 300 galleries, over 250 public libraries, 130 cinemas and many other cultural institutions.
So it is not surprising that the city offers about 1,500 daily events. The budget of 500 million euros for the arts bring Berlin to head the international cultural movement.
Since the '20s, Berlin was proclaimed in various publications and posters as "The city of music and theater." In its role as capital of the theater and the orchestras of Germany, Berlin offers daily culture lovers a wide range: from comedy to classical opera. The music and the music hall as the hall "Wintergarten" and invite many cabaret entertainment in all its forms.
Culture Carnivals and Parades
Unlike Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz, Berlin does not follow the tradition of carnival, at least in the strict sense of the word. However, for Pentecost important event occurs in Berlin: The "Carnival


Cultures ".

The project of "Carnival of Cultures" arose from the growing internationalism of Berlin. As the German city with the largest number of foreigners (about 440,000) Berlin plays the role of a "Workshop on Integration". For the "Workshop of Cultures" (organizers of the "Carnival of Cultures" was founded in 1993 in the Neukölln district of Berlin) was important to create a space that would offer dialogue and meetings between people of different nationalities, cultures and religions. Thus was born the idea of ​​creating a carnival of cultures.
The Carnival of Cultures is part of a new European carnival tradition - something like the Notting Hill Carnival in London or Rotterdam Zomercarnaval - but the large number of participating countries and the vast cultural spectrum of actors make it a unique event internationally. And how can we forget the million and a half visitors from around the world to come to Berlin to live this wonderful experience.
Parade techno music "Love Parade" had a similar number of visitors. This parade, founded by DJ Dr. Motte in 1989, attracted every year more and more techno lovers to Berlin. In 2003, Parade Zurich took the lead. In 2004 and 2005 the "Love Parade" was not carried out because of funding problems. Now the organizers of "Loveparade LLCs" decide where and when will the event. The dark side of this great event were the mountains of trash left by visitors and ecological havoc caused in the Tiergarten park.
These parades belongs also the annual Christopher Street Day parade, created in 1979 and takes place in late June provided. With 1.2 million visitors Cologne narrowly beat us. But this can not take away the fame of Berlin to be the capital of gays and lesbians.
Even celebrities such as, Mr. Thierse, who in 2000 was president of the parliament, and the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, who before his inauguration he publicly declared his homosexuality, participate in the carnival. What was originally a political rally of hundreds of daring became the Parade "Gay Pride" (gay pride) in a trade show that attracts millions of visitors. For many visitors, the champagne is a must!
Berlin for sports fans
In Berlin there are a number of gyms and sport clubs that are practiced in almost all forms. Some clubs focus even professional: football teams Hertha BSC and 1. FC Union Berlin ice hockey team Eisbären, Alba basketball team and football team Berlin Thunder to name a few. In the national volleyball league, Berlin is represented with three teams.
Each year there is the world famous Berlin "Berlin Marathon" involving approximately 40,000 runners and the championship final of the League Cup and the ISTAF (light athletics championship). For the application to the Summer Olympics of 2000, which eventually took place in Sydney, were built and renovated many sports facilities, for example the Colosseum Max-Schmeling-Halle, the SSE Sports Complex Sportpark Europe with two indoor pools. In July 2006 there was the World Cup final in Berlin. This Olympic Stadium was renovated completely. In 2009 there will be the World Athletics light.

The world has many variations of culture, knowing them helps us to know ourselves better and be better people.

LONDON

London's culture encompasses art, music, museums, festivals and other events in London, the UK capital. The city is particularly famous for its large number of theaters, theater district and the West End has been named as the name "West End theater" or "West End theater", the theater chain professionals who act in the large theaters of London.

London is also home to significant cultural interest because it houses museums like the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, the Notting Hill Carnival and The O2.

A variety of monuments and objects are cultural icons associated with London as Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the underground map.

Many other British cultural icons are strongly associated with London in the minds of tourists, including the red phone, the Routemaster bus, the black cab and the Union flag.

The city is home to over 300 nationalities, and the diversity of cultures have shaped the culture of the city over time.