Summer is the ideal season to relax and travel, including through books! To promote the meeting between children's books and their young audience, the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin launched in 2015 a major national operation called 'Lire en short'. This event returns this summer under the name 'Partir en livre'! Based on the model of the music festival, this great festival of children's books takes place throughout France and offers completely free activities.
The Antibes Juan-les-Pins jazz festival or Jazz à Juan has been held since 1960 in the mythical setting of the Gould pine forest. This summer event, which is the oldest jazz festival in Europe, offers the greatest artists an exceptional meeting with their public.
A must-see monument for tourists visiting Barcelona, the Sagrada Familia has been under construction since the beginning of its construction... in 1882! Back on the history of an astonishing building whose realization seems to know no end.
Since 2015, the city of Nice offers a new summer festival called Nice Music Live. After inviting Selah Sue, David Guetta and Lindsey Stirling for its first edition, this festival is going up with new prestigious guests.
The Festival des Mots is the flagship event of the Alpes-Maritimes General Council's Summer Evenings. It is a free event for the whole family. The program includes readings of great literary texts by famous actors.
Throughout the summer, free concerts will brighten up the aperitif hour at Bercy Village. The Musiques en terrasse festival will offer until the end of August about twenty open air concerts. On the program, an eclectic and mixed music.
After the success of its previous editions, the international paperback book fair 'Saint-Maur en poche' will take place during a weekend in June at Place des Marronniers. This fair created in 2009 is a fun and friendly event.
After being saved from abandonment by thousands of co-hosts mobilized by the start-up Dartagnans, the Château de Boulogne-la-Grasse will open its doors to the public for the very first time in July 2022. Here are 5 good reasons to visit this unusual place.
Nicknamed the Netflix of webtoon and manga, Piccoma, a subsidiary of the Korean giant Kakao, is conquering Europe by launching its comic book application under the name Piccoma Europe. Very popular with young people and millenials, this application is the first manga application in the world, number one in Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. The first feedback on the French market seems to indicate that the success story is not ready to stop.
From June 9, 2022, the museums of the City of Nice will host no less than 11 exhibitions on the theme of flowers. The 5th Biennale des Arts de Nice, originally scheduled for 2021, has been postponed to summer 2022 due to the health crisis. Through 11 exhibitions, it celebrates the ties and traditions linking the Côte d'Azur capital to flowers.
