Instagrammable Scenes Are All Over The City Of Lights
It snowed in Paris.
While that may seem like a fluke, it’s really not that unusual.
In fact, when it happens fun things happen in the City of Lights. The Eiffel Tower, while closed during these times, looks like a winter wonderland. Being there is a true Instagrammable moment.
Snowboarders literally make mountains out of molehills. During the January snowfall, they chugged up the steep lawns running alongside the stairs leading up to the basilica and created a makeshift run at the Butte Montmartre church and the little streets that lead up to Sacré Cœur.
If that’s not your speed, then take part in a snowball fight in the maze at the Tuileries.
If you find yourself in Paris when it snows, don’t stay inside. Get out and enjoy this somewhat rare but beautiful experience. Here’s a few tips from Tourism Paris on things to do and places to go when it snows:
• Enjoy strolling through captivating snowscapes from the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre, Notre Dame and Sacré Coeur.
• Take advantage of the best views in the city from high viewpoints such as the Butte Bergeyre, Belleville Park. Great panoramas – and like-building social media posts – are guaranteed from these vantage points.
• To admire the view from the warmth of indoors, go to the Centre Pompidou or the Zyriab restaurant at the Institut du Monde Arabe, or stand behind the clock in the Musée d’Orsay.
You can also get out of the city and do some serious skiing and snowboarding at the ski resorts in the southern Pyrenees Mountains, which this season have received very little snowfall.
Paris is in no danger of becoming the City of Snow instead of the City of Lights, but when when it does turns white, it is quite the site to see.
Cheers!
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