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BASELWORLD
BASEL
Hold on to your tiaras, there are
some seriously bling items on show
at this mega watch-and-jewellery
show. More than 1,800 luxury
brands will be exhibiting their new
designs, so if you’re in the market
for diamonds for your fingers or an
elegant timepiece for your wrist,
look no further.
baselworld.com
8-15 MARCH
Naviglio Grande
Antiques Market
MILAN
This market stretches along
for almost 2km on both sides
of Milan’s oldest canal, Naviglio
Grande. Stock up on everything from
collectable furniture to worthless but
charming bric-a-brac. The market is
held on the last Sunday of the month,
9am to 6pm.
navigliogrande.mi.it
25 MARCH
HAVEASPLURGE
What’s going on?
TEFAF Maastrict
DUSSELDORF
Self-styled as the“World’s Leading
Art and Antiques Fair”, this expo is
certainly impressive. Head to the
purpose-built exhibition space in
Maastricht, just over an hour from
Dusseldorf airport, for 7,000 years’
worth of carefully vetted fine art: just
don’t expect too many bargains.
tefaf.com
16-25 MARCH
LYON
For many of us, what scant
knowledge we have of the Gauls – the
Celtic people who ruled France in the first
years AD – we’ve gleaned fromAlbert
Uderzo’s
Astérix
cartoons. But now,
thanks to a new drum-like structure that
has sprung up in rural Burgundy, all this
may be set to change.
The MuséoParc Alésia, about 2½
hours’ drive north of Lyon, which will open
on 26 March, commemorates a great
battle fought here between the victorious
Fort Provoking
Romans and vanquished Gauls.
Inspired by pictures of Roman
fortifications, and designed by the team
behind the Acropolis Museum, the
timber-clad building marks the exact
spot where Julius Caesar’s invading
Roman army camped in 52BC before
their triumph. Its interactive displays
will give this 2,000-year-old tale a new
lease of life, and promise to be at least as
exciting as the exploits of Astérix and his
buddies.
alesia.com
Shrubs and grasses have
been planted in the roof
of thismuseum to
minimise the visual
impact on the landscape
Post
-Twilight,
Robert Pattinson is back in cinemas thismonth as a 19th-century
seducer in
Bel Ami
. But did you know you can visit the real-life settings for the story?
THE PARIS OF
BEL AMI
Finding your way in...
FOLIES BERGÈRE
In the film, newspaperman
Charles Forestier takes
Pattinson’s character to this
icon of excess. The famously
dissolute nightclub is now
toned down, but still hosts
musical theatre for quite a
crowd.
foliesbergere.com
L’ÉGLISE DE LA
MADELEINE
One of Europe’s most unusual
churches, this historic hotspot
provides the setting for
Bel
Ami
’s dramatic denouement
but it’s worth a visit for its
dramatic architecture alone.
eglise-lamadeleine.com
RUE PIERRE FONTAINE
First home to Forestier, and
later Bel Ami himself, door 17
on this 9th arrondissement
street figures highly in the
book as the location for
assignations and betrayals.
It’s now home to handmade
shoeshop Clairvoy,
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