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Michel Deverne  b.1927
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Northwest of Paris, Colombes is a suburb with easy access to the center.
All around Colombes there are reminders of the industry that engulfed the area in the 19th and 20th centuries. These old factories and warehouses have since been turned into offices, shops, and luxury apartments. Colombia has attracted high-income people and the service industry, which are moments from La Défense. The Yves-du-Manoir Stadium in Colombia also hosted events for the 1924 Paris Olympics and remains the home of the successful Racing 92 Rugby Club. If you can ignore the capital's call, you can reach Paris Saint-Lazare Station in less than 20 minutes on the suburban train network. Discover the best things to do in Colombia.
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1. Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir
Rugby Club Top 14 Racing 92 still uses this 14,000-seater stadium in Colombia for home games. Les Ciel et Blanc always competes with the best in the department and won the championship in the 2015-16 season.
If you’re in the mood for some first-class rugby this is as good as it gets, as the squad is peppered with internationals like the New Zealander Dan Carter, one of the greatest players of all time.
But the stadium also had a certain mystery: It held all kinds of events, including athletics, at the 1924 Paris Olympics, while it was also the stage for the 1938 World Cup by a team. Italian ball led by Giuseppe Meazza.
2. Musée Municipal d’Art et d’Histoire
Long before it was a suburb of Paris, Colombia had its own castle, occupied by several major historical figures.
One of these was Henrietta Maria, the widow of the English King Charles I who fled here after he was executed by Oliver Cromwell in 1649. This is one of the few Ancien Régime themes you can pull in at the local museum of Colombia.
Then you’ll delve into the 19th and 20th centuries when the area was industrialized and was the base for manufacturers like Ericsson, Goodrich tires and the perfumer Guerlain. Colombes’ sporting heritage is also revealed in an exhibition recounting the 1924 Olympics.
3. L’Avant Seine
A cultural venue that Colombians can be proud of, L-YA Seine is a stylish theater opened in 1991. Even 25 years after it was built the 1,000-seater auditorium is state-of-the-art, as its stage sits on hydraulic cylinders and can be adjusted depending on the type of show.
There are plays, operas, dances, film screenings, the music of all descriptions, comedy, and magic. You could also just drop by for lunch at the theatre’s sleek restaurant.
4. Ancienne Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
This old church is a historical monument of France but has been destroyed for nearly 50 years. It’s a victim of its location, next to the main road that was enlarged in 1968 requiring the nave to be torn down.
What’s left now is the bell-tower and a few arches, which have stonework going back to the 1100s. In fact, there has been a church here since the middle ages, and when the road was dug in the 1960s, workers went through the Merovingian burial.
5. Esplanade de La Défense
  Unless you go on a business trip, the appeal of La Défense will lie only in shopping, modern architecture and pioneering sculpture. You can feel all this on the long and wide Esplanade de La Défense, like walking on a canyon between the walls of skyscrapers.
If you’re taking it slow you can pause to observe some peculiar pieces of public art, most of which were installed in the 80s and 90s. See Michel Deverne from César Baldaccini's Grande Mosaïque and Le Pouce (a massive brass thumb).
You can also see where La Défense started at the two-layer concrete CNIT building. This dates to 1958 and still as spellbinding as any of the newer structures.
6. Grande Arche
The historic Ax cut Paris diagonally from La Défense to the Louvre. And it was very gratifying to be able to stand at the Grande Arche and look straight through the gates of the Arc de Triomphe a few kilometers southeast.
In May 2017 you’ll be able to access the roof for the first time since a mishap with the elevators in 2010. While you're here, you can appreciate the way it is also built on another axis with the tallest buildings in the city, Tour Montparnasse and the Eiffel Tower.
7. Île de la Jatte
Less than ten minutes by car is Île de la Jatte, an island on the river between Courbevoie and Neuilly-sur-Seine. Although the island is now home to around 4,000 people it used to be parkland for the now leveled Château de Neuilly. A temple of Eros on the southern tip of the island is one of the few remaining traces of this hotel.
Currently, an Impressionist path leads you to scenes painted by Monet, Sisley, van Gogh and of course Seurat, who describe the riverbanks as the most persistent.
8. 17th Arrondissement
If you want to watch the upper crust of Paris in its natural habitat, you can take a ten-minute train ride to this luxurious area. The 17th arrondissement as we see it is now designed by Baron Haussman, with its wide streets and splendid townhouses.
At the street level, there are high-class shops and restaurants. You' ll have a few great food markets for pottery making in this area: Marché Poncelet, fixed street market and Marché des Batignolles, with outdoor stalls.
The architect's park is decorated with 18th-century authorized followers by the Duke of Chartres, cousin of Louis XVI, who will soon lose his head in the Revolution.
9. Arc de Triomphe
As the crow flies away, this is Paris's closest major landmark to Colombia. It’s only five kilometers away and if you were to set off first thing on a weekend morning you could drive there in 10 minutes.
The remaining time you will need a little more time to come to a monument standing with the Eiffel Tower as an international identifier for Paris. The name tells you that this is a triumphal arch built in a Classical style to honor the fallen in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars at the turn of the 18th century.
There are reliefs of battles and the names of the protagonists are carved in the limestone. Go up to the roof to ponder the unobstructed view along the Axe Historique.
10. Palais Garnier
This iconic Beaux-Arts opera house sets the standard for venues around the world. If you want a seat at one of the theaters held at Palais Garnier, you will need to make a reservation.
But it's worth coming just to go around for a tour. The ornamentation inside needs to be seen to be believed, with friezes, balustrades, columns, and statues made from marble in a range of colors.
The ceiling in the Grand Foyer was painted by Marc Chagall. The Italian auditorium has nearly 2,000 seats and has the largest stage in Europe, with space for 450 people.
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