UPDATE FOR 2021: Bastille Day celebrations will resume this year and are set to accommodate 25,000 viewers. The seated area will not have formal spacing but social distancing and masks will be required. Meanwhile, the standing area will have a 4-sqm spacing rule for every person. All in all, people will be allowed to enter Champs-Elysées for the parade.
One of the European celebrations that you should NOT miss out on would be the French National Day: ‘Bastille Day‘ in France!
Called in many names: La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration), La Fête de la Bastille (Bastille Celebration), or Le Quatorze Juillet (the fourteenth of July), this amazing affair is celebrated annually on the 14th of July. With French people all over the world celebrating this day, naturally, it is a HUGE celebration — more so in Paris as they hold festive events for all tastes and ages from the early hours of the morning till the wee hours of the night.
That’s why this year, I was incredibly happy when I was invited to the ‘City of Love‘ to join the fête!
Come and check out this list of the top things to do in Paris which features the best activities and tours to do in and out of the city!
About Bastille Day
- Bastille Day commemorates the Storming of the Bastille (a fortress and prison for those who opposed France’s kings) on July 14, 1789, thereby marking the French Revolution.
. - Bastille Day only became a national holiday in 1880 and the French continue to celebrate it today as a way of recognizing the significance of this event which ushered the end of the royal monarchy and the beginning of its modern republic.
. - It is only on Paris’ Bastille Day that you get to witness the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe! It happens on the morning of July 14 on the Champs-Élysées.
So how was it for me? Well, I certainly had a swell time spending Bastille Day in Paris — it was memorable and I highly suggest that you make it a point to attend this too!
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Things to Do on Bastille Day
» 9AM: Witness the Military Parade (Défilé Militaire) at Champs-Élysées
As I’ve already mentioned above, this is Europe’s oldest and largest regular military parade; therefore, it’s quite a sight to see!
All traffic will usually be closed starting at 7AM in Champs-Elysées and its surrounding streets, and it’s actually around 10AM that the program starts from the…
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