Top 10 French cities to visit at night
At dusk, some places feature a beauty magnified by light skins. What saved the holidays the worst insomniacs after dancing in Party Girls most cities in France!
1 Lyon (RHONE) during the holiday season of lights
Initially religious festival during which Lyonnais were invited to ask candles on the edge of their windows to thank the Virgin for sparing the "capital of the Gauls" a plague, the Festival of Lights has become since the 2000, a popular tourist festival, welcoming millions of people for four days. In a good-natured atmosphere at night, pedestrians are invading the city smells of mulled wine, to discover magical light installations.
The Festival of Lights is held each year around December 8(www.fetedeslumieres.lyon.fr).
2 docks of Bordeaux (Gironde)
It's beautiful at night ... Bordeaux, Port of the Moon then deserves its name. The "Lighting Plan" of the city revealed nocturnal atmosphere, and urban port, making it a city of the Arabian Nights. Spotlight until one in the morning. The lighting is subtle, chiseled shadows. Among the jewels night, the arrow of the Basilica Saint-Michel, the Burgundy gate and pallet moving slate and pink, floral and colorful lanterns docks or golden beaches of the Place de la Bourse facades. Right bank of St. Mary Church of the Bastide rather cantankerous day, become almost sexy!
To admire the illuminations Bordeaux, is simple: take line A tram that crosses the stone bridge and come up to the slopes of Cenon and Lormont. The rising of the river and its light string sparkle to your feet.
3 Vitteaux (Côte-d'Or) and its shadow path
At night, the "path of shadows" of Christian Boltanski offers residents and visitors Vitteaux a stroll to the strange and ghostly creatures clinging to houses discovery. Witches, angels, animals of all kinds living in alleys and old buildings of this beautiful Burgundian town that has preserved its medieval and Renaissance architecture. They challenge the visitor and create an original tour that you will remember.
Reside and dine in Villeferry, a small village where devotees opened in Orchard Vines, bed and breakfast(www.bourgogne-en-douce.com).
4 Uckange (Moselle) and Blast Furnace Park
The impressive silhouette of the blast furnace Uckange only vestige of a former steel complex at the gates of Thionville, stands on the banks of the Moselle. Now monument, this blast furnace, which shipped its last batch in 1991, is open to visitors. We discover the technical facilities and the history of this symbol of industrial heritage. At night, the lighting of the site, called "All Suns" and created by artist Claude Lévêque, gives a fantastic appearance on this iron monster restoring the strength of the steel industry by a lighting game red and orange. The best point of view is that the bridge, which spans the railway track.
Make an appointment for a guided tour by a former steelworker. The night tours are held on Saturdays(www.haut-fourneau-u4.fr).
5 Marqueyssac (Dordogne) Candlelight visit gardens
The site Marqueyssac at the tip of a rocky outcrop overlooking the valley of the Dordogne, is sumptuous. As gardens, fruit of three centuries of creativity, where you walk along 6 km of roads across 150,000 boxwood hand carved. Everything is game of shadow and light, thanks to the mix of trees, decks, and flamboyant carpet cyclamen and waterfalls. This game is sublimated summer during night Thursday: walks are then marked by 2,000 candles and a hundred other light sources illuminate the gardens.
Marqueyssac to visit in any season. Three walks lead to the lookout, 130 m above the river.
6 Amiens cathedral (Somme)
Even if you know that in the Middle Ages the facades of cathedrals were as colorful as stained glass windows, you will be surprised and amazed by the lights of the cathedral of Amiens. In summer and in December in the dark, hundreds of statues populating the porches of Notre Dame back to their original colors. And represent, in purple, gold, emerald and turquoise, a time when the religious iconography, before the invention of printing, replaced the mainstream book. The next day, in broad daylight, you will look with different eyes these stone figures.
During the day, then come to the Virgin, in the center of the porch right to distinguish traces of blue paint that once covered her dress.
Amiens Cathedral at night© Alonbou - Fotolia.com
7 Le Mans (Sarthe) overnight Chimera (Sarthe)
At night during the summer and the holiday season, walkers can contemplate the light projections of the artists Skertzo on the walls of the main buildings of the city Plantagenet (cathedral, conservatory, Roman wall ...). With lively frescoes incredibly vivid color, theater lifelike holograms, giant representations of musical angels and other ghostly halos give a hypnotic beauty to monuments. A "sound and light" course that explores the historical heart of the city through the lens of a dream vagrancy.
About two hours of walking is needed to enjoy this magical and free show (dates and times on: www.nuitdeschimeres.com).
8 Pont du Gard, between Uzes and Nimes (Gard)
On summer evenings, the crowd gathered on the banks of the Gardon waits patiently dusk. For from the darkness came, the ancient Pont du Gard lights with majesty ballet stone arches where every curve of its three levels is highlighted with finesse. Some nights, the bridge becomes the hero of an amazing show. Pyrotechnics, fireworks, video projections, music ... Directed by Group F world famous representation is a festival of colors, lights and flames. "Lux Populi," "Impressions! "Or" Extravaganza bridge ": each creation is a singular experience.
Highlighting the bridge (www.pontdugard.fr) every summer at nightfall. Between 4 and 6 performances in Group F per season. Bring warm clothes!
Pont du Gard, France© kasto - Fotolia.com
9 Montpellier (Hérault) and Aqueduct St Clement
Blue like water. This is the color of the scattered light on the "Arches" Montpellier Parade stone archways on two levels and 820 m long. Built from 1753 to 1764 and inspired by the Pont du Gard aqueduct St. Clement was indeed long vector feeding the city: it was he who captures a source at 18 km to the north, distributing the various fountains of the city. Designed by Yann Kersalé, visual artist internationally renowned light, illumination honors the primary function of the monument. The blue water is the common thread of an urban background, "Night of links', which extends into the center.
The hoops are in line Peyrou, former Place Royale, which offers a clear view.
10 Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) and docks
This is certainly the dark a walk on the banks of the Garonne reserve the most beautiful views of the river, on the left bank with a frontal, the illuminated dome of the Hospital of La Grave and the imposing facade of the Hotel-Dieu, but also on the St. Pierre bridge and the Pont Neuf, which unlike what its name implies, is the oldest of Toulouse. The different colored lights, reflecting in the waters of the Garonne, magnify all these monuments of Toulouse's heritage.
Still prefer the warm, sunny evenings early fall. The grazing ray intensifying the red brick, the colors are even more beautiful!
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