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Week-end Plan – Biennale De Lyon

November and December are full of national holidays when you have some extra days off of work or school, why not go outside Paris and enjoy some fresh air? Lyon, 2-hour TGV away and “the world capital of gastronomy”, comes highly recommended by The Non-Parisian. This time of the year, Lyon becomes ever more culturally vibrated with the Biennale. Usines Fagors Biennale is ever trendy in the contemporary art scene. La Biennale de Lyon, more creative, less commercialized, welcomes it’s 15th edition this year. “Where water comes together with other water” is this edition’s title and theme. A suitable title when Biennale de Lyon is all about artists from different cultural backgrounds coming together, and a clever title when there are rivers Saône and Rhône merging together in Lyon. From 18th September 2019 to 5 January 2020, three main venues of the Biennale: Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (MAC), Usines…

Week-end Plan – Nice

The proper way to pronounce Nice is not how one pronounces “nice” as in the quality of something or someone being kind – Nice (nee-hsssss), nonetheless, is very nice and the epitome of the French and Italian border it straddles. Originally an Italian city until it voted itself into becoming French a hundred something years ago, Nice is the quintessential beach town packed with scenery, sea, and savory food.

Week-end Wednesday – Nancy

You’ll be wandering the streets of the French city described by writer Marcia DeSanctis as “more Paris than Paris” when you visit Nancy in the Lorraine region. Rich with history and filled with dizzying Art Nouveau stretching from buildings to the minutest of details, this northeastern city is just about an hour and a half away from Paris via TGV and is well worth a weekend trip if you’re interested in art. This city is a hidden gem for art lovers wanting to venture out of Paris as there are two museums with extensive collections and not packed full of visitors as one would find at the Louvre or the Orsay, for example. Nancy’s history is intertwined with art as the city was host to the famous school for the art nouveau movement known as the École de Nancy in the early 20th century; you know those sprawling jade metro…