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eco-tourism 
sports & leisures 
city outings 
practical information 
Newsletter # 12 - autumn 2009
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Autumn in Le Havre: in tune with the tempo This autumn, Le Havre sets the tone for a quintet of events played on a seemingly heterogeneous ensemble of instruments which are nonetheless in keeping with the tempo, playing from the same score, that is to say: the dynamic tune of the city known as Porte Océane (the “Gateway to the Ocean”). Let’s start with the Malraux Museum which invites the public to discover the magic of clouds, those marvellous clouds: stratus, cumulus and nimbus as depicted by painters such as the amazing Boudin but also by contemporary photographers, will be on display for several weeks... In the following few days, the “Docks Vauban” will open their doors to the public. This former “cathedral” of the port made of bricks, wood and glass enjoys a new lease of life thanks to the architect Bernard Reichen. The area of 66000m2 that used to welcome coffee, cocoa and tobacco is now making space for the restaurants, shops and leisure centre. At City Hall’s theatre, the finalists of the European Piano Competition will touch the right chord and will play the right tempo to please the ears of the piano lovers. The programme does not stop there, it just keeps rising in a crescendo with the Jacques Vabre Transatlantic race starting as soon as the 31st of October and gathering some of the best skippers for a race towards the coast of Costa Rica, a country that produces... coffee! Monohulls and multihulls will leave on the 8th of November. You will barely have time to recover from your maritime emotions & dreams of faraway lands before the new “Exhibition Fair” starts at the Docks Café. This popular event gathers many motivated tradesmen & shop keepers. An autumn in Le Havre full of events, make the most of it! |
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-- Jacques Vabre Transatlantic Race : book your stay in Le Havre on line --
The Tourist office of Le Havre suggests you booking on-line via our Central Reservation : weekend for two, stays in family or escapades between friends, you are certain to find the accommodation which is convenient for you and the leisure activities which look like you.
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-- Event : Jacques Vabre Transatlantic Race -- The 2009 version of the Jacques Vabre Transatlantic race will be placed under the sign of novelty. After the announcement of Costa Rica as a new destination, Jacques VABRE and the organizers of the event also decided to shake up the custom of a departure in two times. Indeed, just like for the last Road of the Rum , the competitors sailing on multihulls and monohulls will dash together on Sunday, November 8th, 2009. With this first innovation the institution of a new prologue is added taking the form of a regatta on equal terms in the docks of the port of Le Havre, transformed, for the occasion, into a real nautical sports centre. |
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--Clouds, these marvellous clouds -- Through exhibitions "Tribute and digressions" inaugurated in 2004 with Wave 1 and Wave 2, around major works from its collections, the Malraux Museum honors the studies of sky by Eugène Boudin, by exploring the funds given by the artist’ s brother in 1900 and enriched in 2004 by 17 new pieces of the Senn-Foulds donation.
Boudin is not the only one, of course, to focus on atmospheric phenomena. During the nineteenth century other painters have tried to capture the movement and the immateriality of the clouds (Constable, Degas ...) but Boudin is probably the one who spoke with most emotion and poetry of the researches that he made. |
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-- Second European Piano Competition -- Intiated in 2005 under the patronage of the European Commissioner for education and culture, chaired in 2009 by Sweden as President of the European Council, under the patronage of the European Parliament, the Committee of European Regions and 17 Governments including the Government represented by the French State Secretary for European Affairs. The European Prize of Piano 2009 will be presented during the second edition of the European Piano Competition held in Ouistreham and in Le Havre from 14th to 25th October 2009. Book your tickets at the Tourist Office!
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