Anne hidalgo - activities

Pedestrian Champs-Elysées: car-free day on the famous avenue on Sunday May 5, 2024

The Champs-Elysées are reserved for pedestrians one Sunday a month. An opportunity to discover the most beautiful avenue in the world in a different way, and to take a selfie in front of the Arc de Triomphe without a car to spoil the picture. This Sunday, May 5, 2024, the Champs Elysées will be pedestrianized all day long!

Nuit Blanche 2024: date, theme... All you need to know about the next edition of this artistic event

La Nuit Blanche is the unmissable artistic and festive event of the year in Paris. Discover the date and theme of the next edition in 2024.

Paris: the mythical Stravinsky fountain freshly restored, our photos

After eighteen months of restoration work, the Fontaine Stravinsky in Paris has been freshly restored! An opportunity to (re)discover this emblematic and poetic work of art in the Beaubourg district, and the sixteen sculptures that make it up, created by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.

Sempé: a memorial site inaugurated in Paris's 6th arrondissement

One year after his death, Paris City Hall has announced that a site in the 6th arrondissement will be inaugurated in tribute to Jean-Jacques Sempé. The exact location has not yet been revealed.

Place du Châtelet gets a makeover for 2024: what work is planned?

In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announced the guidelines for future redevelopment work on the Place du Châtelet.

10 years of marriage for all: a great ball of Love on the square of the City Hall

The City of Paris celebrates the 10th anniversary of marriage for all by organizing a big Love Ball on the square of the City Hall. See you this Wednesday, May 17, 2023 to enjoy dj sets, a performance or a bouquet throwing!

Works around the Eiffel Tower: the final project is up

Discussed for years, the maintenance works around the Eiffel Tower project seems to have found its way and is likely to be up for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: a memorial erected rue de l’Amiral-de-Coligny

This Friday September 16, 2022, for the 450th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Anne Hidalgo inaugurated a memorial garden commemorating this tragic event that caused over 10,000 deaths.

78th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris: discover the program of the ceremonies

This year, the Liberation of Paris turns 78 years old. On the occasion, the city hosts a series of traditional ceremonies on Wednesday August 24 and Thursday 25, 2022. Ceremonial drills, troop inspection, tributes to the dead and even exhibition…

Global warming: air-conditioned stores obliged to close their front doors

To fight against global warming, the City of Paris and several others have issued a decree obliging air-conditioned stores to close their front doors, under threat of a fine, to prevent higher energy consumption.

Driving in Paris: speed limited to 30km/h and generalized starting this Monday August 30, 2021

In Paris, drivers will have to go easy. Starting from Monday August 30, 2021, the speed is limited to 30km/h (18mph) in most streets of the French capital.

Paris 2024: France takes over 100 years later

Many festivities have marked the hand-over from Tokyo to Paris for the upcoming 2024 Olympics. More about this Olympic day.

Paris: paid parking for scooters and motorbikes starting from 2022

Starting from 2022, scooter and motorbikes will now have to pay for parking in Paris. Announced a while ago, this measure has been presented this Tuesday June 15, 2021 by David Belliard - Anne Hidalgo's deputy entrusted with transport and mobility. In all, 120,000 parking spots will disappear to give "more nature and more space to pedestrians and cyclists".

Paris wants to clean the Seine so one can bathe by the Olympics 2024

Bathing in the Seine: sweet utopia or real project? Paris has set up a sanitation plan of the river so that by the Olympics 2024, everyone can swim in it.

Cars to be banned from Paris city center by 2022? The heart of the capital could be pedestrianized

Cars are to be given less space in Paris. Among the measures considered by the City Hall, it is about making the city’s historic heart pedestrianized. Transit vehicles could be then banned from Paris city center.

Reinventing Paris: the French capital to turn 60,000sqm of offices into housings

Paris officials make the most of Covid crisis to turn offices into housings. Tati Barbès store, Renault garage on Quai de Grenelle, PSA garage on Avenue de République. This Tuesday February 9, 2021 Emmanuel Grégoire has announced major transformations in Paris and urges property owners to propose their property to sale as part of the “Réinventer Paris” project. A win-win situation, the elected representative says.

Covid in Paris: five major centers to vaccinate “30 to 40%” of the population “starting January”

Vaccination against Covid is underway in Paris! Anne Hidalgo announced during a meeting with arrondissement mayors she identified five potential sites that could house several centers for anti-coronavirus vaccination campaigns. The goal being to vaccinate 30 to 40% of the population in Paris – including prioritized people – starting January 2021, once the vaccine issued.

Urban forests in Paris: two projects gave up by Anne Hidalgo, three new sites presented

Even more greenery in Paris. This is one of Anne Hidalgo’s new mandate goals as Paris mayor. To do so, four urban forests projects have been announced in June 2019, two have been definitively let go, and three other new sites have been unveiled. The forests planned rue Curial and Place de la Catalogne are to be erected very soon.

Paris: a reception center for refugees opens in Paris 1st arrondissement

Invited for Le Grand Jury on October 4, 2020 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo confirmed a daytime reception center for refugees was to open soon. It will be set in the premises of the former 1st arrondissement town hall at the Place du Louvre.

Coronavirus: reduced gauge in universities, different from high schools, Blanquer says

As Paris and its inner suburbs are put on maximum alert zone since October 4 at night because of the worrying increase in coronavirus cases, on Tuesday October 6, 2020 National Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer addresses the reduction of the student guage in universities and the polemic as for junior high schools and high schools that are not on the same boat.