Paris City Hall open to the public on the night of July 14 to watch over the Olympic flame

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced on Tuesday that the public will be able to discover the Olympic flame throughout the night in the town hall.

In Paris, July 14 will be all firework (fireworks) all flame (Olympic). The capital’s Town Hall will be open throughout the night of the national holiday so that “Parisians and visitors can admire” the Olympic flame a few days before the start of the Games (from July 26 to August 11), announced Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday April 23 at a press conference.

It will be a “great vigil” of the flame which “will sleep in the living rooms” of the building without being extinguished, described Anne Hidalgo, while the torch relay will pass through the central districts of the capital on July 14, then through its outer districts the next day. During the Olympic Games, the Olympic cauldron, which will host the flame, will be installed in the Jardin des Tuileries, where it will be accessible to the public.

Twelve days before the unprecedented opening ceremony of the Games on the Seine, the passage of the flame will not prevent the fireworks on July 14 from being held from the Eiffel Tower, but the concert usually organized on the Champ-de -March will take place elsewhere, said Anne Hidalgo. The Iron Lady will then be adorned with the five Olympic rings, hung high on its north side which overlooks the river.