Has Paris Become Snooze City?
In recent years, several famous Parisian nightspots have closed their doors.
PARIS, Jan. 14, 2010 — -- France remains the No. 1 destination in the world for tourism. And Paris is an inevitable stop for any tourist visiting France. But after a certain hour, Paris turns into the European capital of dull.
Several famous institutions of Parisian nightlife have closed their doors in recent years.
The famous Le Palace nightclub, where world celebrities used to party in the 1980s, has become a theater, after it remained vacant and abandoned for many years. And La Locomotive, another nightclub in Pigalle, Paris' infamous red-light district, where the Rolling Stones once performed, is about to become a museum and cafe.
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Berlin, London, and Barcelona, among other cities, have recently become favored destinations for party-afficionados, because these cities are easy to get to at affordable prices, thanks to the boom in low-cost travel.
"The noise is one of the main sources of problems, and the situation has been deteriorating for the past 10 to15 years, in particular with ... gentrification in the Paris city center," Eric Labbe, co-author of an online petition launched in October to help save the Paris club scene, told ABCNews.com. That, coupled with what Labbe called "concentrated urbanization with an extremely dense city center and plush housing a bit all over the place," has contributed to the decline in nightlife, said Labbe.
"It's led to tensions over the years between local residents and club owners," he said.
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