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EXPERIENCE Paris: Île de la Cité, Marais and Beaubourg
11 The great glass-and-
concrete Forum des
Forum des Halles Halles, and the sheltered
“Canopy” (inset)
H3 ⌂ 101 Porte Berger
75001 q Les Halles,
Châtelet W Châtelet-Les-
Halles # Complex: 10am– w
8:30pm Mon–Sat, 11am– St-Eustache
7pm Sun; restaurants/
cinemas: 9am–11:30pm G3 ⌂ 2 impasse
∑ forumdeshalles.com St-Eustache 75001 13 '
q Les Halles, Châtelet Tour St-Jacques
Known simply as Les Halles W Châtelet-Les-Halles
and built amid controversy # Hours vary, check website H4 ⌂ Sq de la Tour St-
on the site of a famous fruit- ∑ saint-eustache.org Jacques 75004 q Châtelet
and-veg etable market, this # Tower: Jun–Nov: 10am–
large underground complex With its Gothic plan and 5pm Fri–Sun; gardens:
is covered by an undulating Renais sance decoration, year-round ∑ desmotset
glass-and-steel roof, known St-Eustache is one of Paris’s desarts.com
as “La Canopée”, unveiled in most beautiful churches. Its
2016. Shops and restaurants interior is modelled on Notre- This late-Gothic tower, dating
abound, and there are two Dame, with five naves and from 1523, is all that re mains
multi-screen cinemas, a gym side and radial chapels. The of a church used as a rendez-
and swimming pool, and a Renassaince style flour ished vous by pilgrims on the road
cinema resource centre, the over the course of the 105 to Compostela in Spain. The
Forum des Images. At the years (1532–1637) it took to church itself was destroyed by
forum, you can choose from complete the church, as revolutionaries in 1797.
thousands of cinema, tele- evident in the magnificent Earlier, Blaise Pascal, the
vision and amateur films, arches, pillars and columns. 17th-century mathema tician,
many featuring footage of the St-Eustache has hosted physicist and writer, used the
city of Paris, which illustrates many ceremonial events, tower for barometric expe-
the city’s history since 1895. including the baptisms of riments. His statue is at the
Above ground are peace ful Cardinal Richelieu and Madame base of the tower, now used
gardens, pergolas and de Pompadour, and the funer- as a meteorological station.
mini-pavilions. als of fabulist La Fontaine.
It was here that Berlioz first
Forum des Images performed his Te Deum in
⌂ 2 rue du Cinéma # 12:30– 1855. Today, talent ed choir Admiring the works
9pm Tue–Fri, 2–9pm Sat & groups perform regularly, and in the Musée d’Art et
Sun ∑ forumdesimages.fr organ recitals are often held. d’Histoire du Judaïsme
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