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A new contemporary art center in Montpellier, the Design Biennale in Saint-Etienne, the FIFA Women's World Cup in 6 out of 9 cities and a great contemporary art bash in Lille

ANNECY

There's so much more to French beer than the popular, industrialized Kronenbourg 1664. Neighboring beer experts, Belgium and Germany, have been an undeniable influence to those learning the art of brewing. Instead of creating competition with them, artisanal beer making in France has given rise to a new passion and camaraderie fueled by the knowledge that no two microbrews alike. Like oenology, zythology (the study of beer and beer making) is slowly becoming a hot topic in France.

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WHAT’S NEW & NEWS FOR France 2019

Top French City Lille

The Growth of Artisanal Microbreweries in France

KEY FIGURES

• 2800 hotels in total—289,000 beds which means an average number of 52 rooms per hotel
  

  
  

There was a time in France when graffiti was a bad word. It certainly wasn't synonymous with art. But times have changed. Since the 1990s, a slow but steady reckoning has elevated appreciation of urban art, loosely defined as creative works that relate to cities and are made by people who live in them, including graffiti and street art using stencils, posters, stickers, murals and more. In fact, these days urban art has been lauded by some as a very significant movement in recent art history.

For centuries, France has been fertile ground for architectural innovation. Gothic, renaissance, baroque, neoclassical, art nouveau and art deco designers have assertively put their ideas into practice and made lasting impressions on dozens of French landscapes and skylines.

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