Paris is gearing up for the 2024 Olympics big time, with construction all over the city. Streets and boulevards being dug up and repaved and there’s scaffolding on major monuments including Place de la Concorde, Opera Garnier, the Grand Palais, and the Arc de Carrousel.
Celebrating the Olympic Games, Hotel de Ville is presenting an outdoor exhibition with framed posters from past host cities and countries, starting with Tokyo from 1964 and finishing with Tokyo again in 2020. It’s fascinating to see the progression of the graphics over the decades and it was fun to see the poster from the Los Angeles Olympics from 1984. The missing posters include Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, and Athens 2004 ( I have inserted photos of the missing ones).
The dates for the Paris summer Olympics are July 26 through August 11, 2024. Surprisingly, Paris has not hosted the Olympics since 1924.
Posters are displayed on the gates at the entrance to the Paris Tourist office at 26 rue de Rivoli, 75001.
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