As of Monday, nearly 4 million subscribers will benefit from new advantages in more than 300 museums, theaters or cinemas in Île-de-France.
The Navigo pass, used to take the metro or the bus in Île-de-France, will become “passport to culture“. As of Monday, January 10, nearly 4 million subscribers to the famous contactless smart card, which succeeded in 2009 to the orange card created in 1975, will be able to benefit from reduced rates or free visits to more than 300 museums, theaters or cinemas, reveals Sunday Newspaper .
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On presentation of the Navigo pass, which “will be scanned as a sanitary pass“, Subscribers will be able to take advantage of advantages such as” a purchased seat, a free seat “, discounts on catering, invitations to openings or previews. “The Navigo pass is an excellent vehicle for making cultural practice accessible to as many people as possible, all generations combined., rejoices Florence Portelli, vice-president of the Regional Council, in charge of Culture. This is particularly important at this time, given the drop in attendance linked to Covid“. One of the six spokespersons for Valérie Pécresse, presidential candidate, specifies that the device is based on “good will“Partners, who will not benefit from any”financial counterpartFrom the Region.
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No price increase in sight
The establishments concerned are located mainly in Paris and in the inner suburbs. We can cite the Musée d’Orsay, the Pompidou center, the Panthéon, the Conciergerie, the Opéra Garnier, the Cité des Sciences, the Picasso museum or the Espace au Bourget. On this list also appear the castles of Rambouillet or Fontainebleau. Note that the Louvre, on the other hand, is not on the list. On the theaters side, there is the Châtelet, the Colline, the Bouffes du Nord, the Amandiers de Nanterre or even concert halls such as the Insula Orchestra on Seguin Island. Finally, for cinemas, only the independent are concerned or even the French Cinémathèque. The details of the benefits for each of them will be specified on Monday on the interactive map, posted on the Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) site which issues the Navigo pass.
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With this device, the Region, Île-de-France Mobilités and the regional tourism committee hope to attract more visitors. Faced with the fears of the regional opposition to see the tariffs increase, the general manager of IDFM Laurent Probst replies that “no tariff increases are expected during the crisis. This would give users a very bad signal when we want them to come back.“.