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Entertainment
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Strasbourg usually has lots going on. In summer, pick up the free
Saison d'A?tA©
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listings leaflet
or the free
magazine
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Spectacles A Strasbourg
(
www.spectacles-strasbourg.presse.fr
), with entertainment info and practical listings, both available from the tourist office. If you're here during university term-time, you might want to check the noticeboards at the university as well.
Free concerts
are held regularly in the Parc des Contades and Parc de l'Orangerie, which also boasts a 24-lane bowling alley. The best of the annual
festivals
starts with music from around the world in mid-June, followed by jazz in July, and contemporary world music in mid-September and early October. In addition, there's
Les Nuits de Strasbourg
, a firework, light and music display at the Ponts Couverts during July and August; and, on July 14, a fireworks display and street entertainment. At the
MarchA© de NoA«l
(end Nov to Dec 24), an annual event for over 400 years, you can buy tree decorations, gifts, crafts, sweets and Alsatian Christmas cookies,
bredele
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France,
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