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Until June 30, in the beautiful French capital, but also across the country, not pay the ticket in museums. In Paris and the region dell’Ile de France will be free museum Guimet, the museum of Cluny, the museum of arts and crafts, the museum of Renaissance in Ecouen and national archaeology at Saint Germain in Laye.

Ticket Free eight other French museums: the Museum of the Navy in Toulon, Adrien Dubouché in Limoges, Magnin in Dijon, the episcopal palace of Reims, Palazzo Jacques Coeur in Bourges, the Chateau d’Orion, the National Museum of Pau Castle and the Castle of Pierrefonds.

This initiative comes at the hands of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to promote art and culture and make them more accessible to the public, and if successful, this could become a permanent initiative.

It was announced by the French prime minister on Tuesday that he wanted to democratize art by making access to Mona Lisa easy for the common people. I think that it is really an important step in creating awareness among people for art and also in democratizing art rather than aestheticisation of art. I am sure that it is wonderful news for all the common people who were earlier unable to have a view of Mona Lisa. The prime minister announced that free access would be tested at a sampling of museums in Paris and other towns. Fillon did not name any museums or elaborate details about this endeavor, but he brought notice to the fact that many European nations had made museums free. He also talked about a “culture passport” that would make access to museums free across the nation. It would be great efforts in making people love the art of the nation.
Via msnbc

The Andorra is land locked in the Pyrenees between France and Spain and there speaks catalan, and French. The size of Andorra 181 square miles, some 2.5 times the size of America capital and its population is 72,822.

The Andorra’s backstory fuzzy story of independence began in the 9th century, when Charlemagne after beating back the invading Moors, rewarded Andorra with independence. Since 1993 Andorra has had its own parliament, but the titular heads of state are the French president and the Spanish bishop of Urgel. Andorra is not simply easy to get to there are no airports, for example, only roads from side to side high mountain passes. But it does have great views and great skiing, including Pas De La Casa, the highest mountain resort in the Pyrénees.

A Funny Thing regarding Andorra: With no income tax and very low taxes on goods, and not accurately open-book banking, Andorra is a hotspot for high-rolling tax evaders.

[ via: wikipedia ]