Paris City Hall open all night on July 14 to admire the flame

Paris City Hall will be open on the night of July 14, a national holiday, so that the public can see the Olympic flame a few days before the start of the Games (July 26 – August 11), Mayor Anne announced on Tuesday. Hidalgo.

“The Town Hall will be open all night so that Parisians and visitors can admire it”indicated the mayor of the host city during a press conference dedicated to the festivities organized throughout the summer in the capital around the Olympic event.

It will be a “great vigil” of the flame which “will sleep in the living rooms” of the building without being extinguished, added the elected socialist.

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This night separates the two days of the flame’s journey through the City of Lights, carried to the central districts on July 14 then to the outer districts on the 15th. The relay “will pass through 80 sites in two days”recalled Olympic assistant Pierre Rabadan.

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 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.