European Heritage Days 2022: in the footsteps of Georges Méliès in Montreuil

For the 39^th edition of European Heritage Days, on Saturday September 17 and Sunday 18, 2022, culture and discovery lovers will be over the moon. For this exceptional weekend, they will get access to thousands of cultural places for free everywhere in France and Europe. And some of them are usually closed to the general public! This is the occasion to bring the family on a walk in the city! And there are not only museums and monuments to visit, but walks to take too!

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Montreuil is a major city in the cinema universe. This is simply the first city to have housed a movie studio, the Star Film, aka Georges Méliès’ company. The moviemaker, then magician, was the first one to use cinematograph as a tool allowing to tell fantasies, inventing special effects. The whole city is packed with secrets related to the inventor of the cinematographic art to discover. Book your ticket now!

European Heritage Days 2022 program:

• To be read
• Heritage Days 2024 at museums and art foundations in Paris and the Île-de-France region
• Heritage Days 2024 in the parks and gardens of Paris and the Île-de-France region
• Journées du Patrimoine 2024: Île-de-France nuggets within Navigo pass reach

• Walk in the streets of Montreuil

Have a walk in the land of cinema, following a route telling his story. First, you will learn Georges Méliès’s fanciful story, his funny and magical movies, and walk by the former location of his studios, where over 500 movies have been shot. Then, you will see the movie theater named after him, the Méliès, a super auditorium and Montreuil pride. Then, you will walk in the streets of the lower Montreuil before discover the movie studios now used and the lovely and remote shooting locations of many movies.