Hotel Touraine Opera, 3 star, Paris (opera, montmartre, madeleine), France

The Touraine Opera is realy in the heart of Paris just halfway between the Opera and the Montmartre (Sacre Coeur), in the centre of what was the "New Athens" district. A strategic position a stone's throw away from the city's well-stocked departement stores : Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.
This district is also theatreland with numerous old brasseries and friendly bistrots.

This charming hotel in the heart of Paris is typically French in the romantic style. It is a perfect place to stay in the city of romanc e! Some of the rooms have exposed beams, which give them an intimate and romantic atmosphere. You can just as easily make it your base for business trips because it is ideally located in the center of Paris with several bus lines and two Metro Stations close by: Notre Dame de Lorette and Trinité line 12.

   The Touraine Opéra comprises 39 rooms, all with air-conditioned.
   They are arranged over seven floors and have a view over the courtyard or the
   quiet street. 19 rooms are entirely non smoking.
   There are:
   - 5 Single Rooms ( for one person )
   - 16 Double Rooms ( with one double bed for two persons )
   - 18 Twin Bedded Rooms (max ocupancy two persons)

New ! Room service arrived in your hotel ! Don't hesitate and try cold main dishes, sandwichs, desserts and wines from 6pm until 3am.

The bathrooms have hairdryers, shower cubicle or tub, 220V shaving point, welcome pack with shower gels, cotton wool and soaps.

There is a pay mini-bar in your room with spirit miniatures (whisky, vodka, cognac, gin), sodas, orange juice and still and sparkling mineral water as well as peanuts and chocolate.

All rooms have direct line telephone and flat screen TV with 10 channels (TF1, Fr2, Fr3, Canal +, Arte, M6, Eurosport, TVEI, CNN, BBC World). For your comfort, there is Internet through WiFi system in all rooms (7 € for 24 hours).

A pay laundry service is available at Reception. Leave your laundry in the morning and collect it clean and ironed the end of the day.

    On the lower ground floor, a magnificent cellar in dressed stone serves as the Breakfast Room
     from 7.00 am to 10.30 am and seats thirty persons.

    There are different types of cereals (corn flakes, fruit muesli, chocolate muesli), orange and grapefruit juice,
    coffee, tea, chocolate, milk, fruit, fruit salad, plain and fruit yogurts, compotes, eggs, cheeses (Tomme noire,
    Cantadou), sweet breads (pains chocolat, croissants), bread rolls, preserves, ham.
    Breakfast can be served in your room from 7.30am to 10.30am.

Our Receptionist will give you a cordial welcome you in the colorful foyer. He is there to make your stay more enjoyable by advising you on the activities and places to visit in the neighborhood. Personnel speak French, English and Spanish.
Opposite you are two lounges with very comfortable leather club armchairs. A glass roof lights one of the lounges and you can just relax or use the Internet with WiFi (chargeable).

Several magazines and daily papers are available, such as the revue Jalouse, international (Herald Tribune, El Pais) and French newspapers (le Figaro together with its weekly supplement).

You can also request a shaving or toothbrush kit. You can equally send faxes from Reception.

There is public pay parking close by.

Credit cards accepted : Visa, MasterCard, Eurocard, American Express, Diners Club and JCB.

Hotel Touraine Opera

The Touraine Opera is really in the heart of Paris just halfway between the Opera and the Sacre Coeur, in the centre of what was the "New Athens" district. A strategic position a stone's throw away from the city's well-stocked department stores : Galeries Lafayette and Printemps.
	A couple steps away from Opera Garnier and Saint Lazare quarter is the charming hotel Touraine Opera, located in the heart of the 9th district which is lively day and night with its restaurants, cafes, shopping galleries and theatres. The nearest station is Trinité on line 12 which take you to Montmartre, the Madeleine and Concorde square in a few minutes. You will also find bus lines 26, 32 and 43 nearby, through wich it is easy to get to Gare du Nord and the Grand Palais.

Paris 9th district map: Opera-Grands Boulevards
	Touraine Opéra Hotel 73, Rue Taitbout 75009 Paris FRANCE Metro : Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves ou Notre Dame de Lorette (ligne 12) Tél : 33 (0)1 48 74 50 49 Fax : 33 (0)1 42 81 26 09 Email : hoteltouraineopera@regetel.com
Paris Access

	Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) RER B Direction Robinson / Saint Rémy les Chevreuses, stop at Gare du Nord. Then line 2 direction Porte Dauphine stop at Pigalle and line 12, direction Mairie d'Issy and stop at Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves. Orly Airport (ORY) Orlyval till Antony, and then RER B direction Aéroport Charles de Gaulle, stop at Gare du Nord. Take connection of metro line 2, direction Porte Dauphine, change at Pigalle to line 12, direction Mairie d'Issy, and stop at Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves.(Paris Airports Site )
	Nearest Railroad Station Gare du Nord (Eurostar, Thalys)11mn by bus # 43
	Metro (Paris Map) The Trinite and Notre-Dame de Lorette Station are less than 300 meters from the hotel. Metro Lines # 12. Direct access to the Montparnasse and Invalides.
	Bus (Paris by Bus) Line n° 26 (Gare Saint Lazare - Cours de Vincennes) Saint Georges - Châteaudun stop. Line n° 32 (Porte d'Auteuil - Gare de l'Est) Saint Georges - Châteaudun stop Line n° 43 ( Neuilly / Bagatelle - Gare du Nord) Saint Georges - Châteaudun stop..
	Parking Public paying parking about 100 meters from the hotel, 12€ per 24H.

Visiting Paris from the Touraine Opéra Hotel:
The Opéra and the Grand Avenues, Montmartre, the Musée du Louvre and Jardin des Tuileries are all within easy reach of the Touraine Opéra Hotel, which is right in the heart of historic Paris and its prestigeous sites.

Musée de la Vie Romantique
This museum has retained the charm of a private residence in the New Athens district. It was the property of the painter Ary Scheffer and his nephew, the writer Ernest Renan.
The museum presents collections of souvenirs and works of art left to the City of Paris and recalling two great figures of the 19th century; the writer George Sand (1804 -1876) and Ary Scheffer (1795-1858).The main room in the museum evokes the daily world of George Sand. On the other side of the courtyard, is Ary Scheffer's workshop where, from 1830 to 1858, he worked and received Chopin, Liszt, Lamartine, Turgenev, Delacroix, etc.
This atmospheric museum plunges the visitor into the living and working environment of the romantics.
Exhibitions evoke the artistic and literary life of the mid-19th century.

Address :
16 rue Chaptal
75009 Paris
Tél. : 01 55 31 95 67
Metro : Blanche, Saint-Georges

Gustave-Moreau Museum
A painter creates his own museum
There is something very special about the Gustave-Moreau museum. The painter himself had it established and designed, so that his works could be gathered and displayed the way he wanted. The building was built at his expense, at the very spot where the artist lived and worked all his life long, and was ready in 1896… Two years later the painter died at the age of 72.

The visitors may discover in the museum an incredibly rich universe - that of a great artist. Everywhere visitors will find the disconcerting mythological, literary and biblical themes dear to Moreau. Everywhere, forms and colours match each other. The painter's approach was initially academic and then symbolist, before becoming surprisingly modern and even almost abstract in his last years…

The collection
Gustave Moreau's masterpieces :
The museum boasts several of Gustave Moreau's masterpieces, together with their preparatory work : the Pretenders, The life of Humanity, the Apparition, Jupiter and Sémélé… But is also contains hundreds of other works of all sizes, all marked by the "unique enchantement" characteristic of Moreau's art.

4.800 drawings and 450 watercolours :
Thousands of drawings are on display in cases with movable panels. On the upper floor, visitors will discover an extraordinary rotating display unit for watercolours, designed along the lines desired by Moreau himself and leading into a real whirlwind of colours. The visitors have then an unusual opportunity to discover how and where the painter created …

In the painter's privacy
The Gustave-Moreau museum is exceptional in the way it lets visitors share the intimate life of a painter and his work - and its ability to preserve the magical atmosphere despite the passing decades. As it did at the 1900 turn of the century, the museum still leads to a kind of captivating charm for the pleasure of many thousands of visitors, including numerous writers and artists…

Address :
14, rue de la Rochefoucauld
75009 PARIS
Phone : 00 33 1 48 74 38 50
Fax : 00 33 1 48 74 18 71
Website : www.musee-moreau.fr
E-mail : info@musee-moreau.fr

Neighbourhood : Opéra Garnier
By Bus : 26, 32, 43, 68, 81
By subway : Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves
Open every day from 10:00 am to 0:45 pm and from 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Closed on Tuesday

Opéra Garnier
The second empire style became a reference in opera house architecture and the Opéra Garnier has become an illustration of this field.

The theatre is richly decorated.
The great staircase, of which the first ten steps form a magnificent elevator cage, lead to the main foyer which opens onto the boxes with their flowered moldings.
Both inside and out, white stone and the colored marbles with their bronze statues underline the majesty of the proportions.
Marc Chagall created new frescos in 1964.
In the center is an immense crystal chandelier weighing six tons.

The Opera is an academy of music and dance as well as a magical place infused with the passion that has promoted the lyric arts since their beginnings. Composers and choreographers of genius, great instrumentalists, singers and dancers give their best performances in a range of registers from despair to the sublime.
Thus, the most spectacular intrigues of a romantic world knot and unwind on stage, in the wings and the boxes of this mythological palace.

Tickets for ballet performances at the Opera are hard to come by.
However, if you are unable to obtain some, you must try to experience the gold and velvet ambiance of the building itself (the main entrance hall is open from 11:00 am to 4.30 pm).

Address :
Place de l'Opéra
8 rue Scribe, 75008 Paris
Reservations : 01 47 42 53 71

Theatres

Théâtre Saint Georges
51 r St Georges - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 48 78 63 47

Casino de Paris
16, rue Clichy - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 08 92 69 89 26

Opéra Garnier
8, rue Scribe - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 0 892 89 90 90

Théâtre de Paris
15, rue Blanche 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 48 74 25 37

Théâtre Fontaine
10, rue Fontaine - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 48 74 74 40

Théâtre La Bruyère
5, rue La Bruyère - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 53 32 32 00

Théâtre Mogador
25, rue Mogador - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 53 32 32 00

Théâtre de l'œuvre
55, rue Clichy - 75009 PARIS
Tél. : 01 44 53 88 80

Restaurants near by the hotel :

La Pommerai
60, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris
Tel : 01 48.74.58.76

Gallopin
40, Rue Notre Dame Des Victoires, 75009 Paris
Tél : 01 42 36 45 38

Le Laroche
54, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris
Tél : 01 48 74 10 95

La Rotonde
54, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris
Tél : 01 47 70 12 06

Your shopping in Paris !

Galeries Lafayette
The Galeries Lafayette store is classed as a historic monument, with its magnificent glass and steel Dome and its Art Nouveau staircase.
40, boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
Tél : 01 42 82 34 56
Métro : Havre-Caumartin, Opéra.
Galeries Lafayettes

Le Printemps
64, boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris
Tél : 01 42 82 50 00
Métro : Havre-Caumartin, Opéra.
Le Printemps

Passage du Havre
An alley between two streets, a shortcut taken by all the employees of the area, this somber, dusty passageway, also contains numerous boutiques, including an electric train shop where the boys (and the men) of the family could get lost for hours!

67, Rue Caumartin
75009 Paris

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