ACCOR ARENA

8 BD DE BERCY, 75012 PARIS

AccorHotels Arena, formerly called « Palais Omnisport Paris-Bercy », collectively called Bercy, POPB, or Paris-Bercy is situated on the boulevard of Bercy, in the 12th district of Paris, in the Parisian district of Bercy, near the Ministry of the Economy and near the shopping district of Bercy Village. This Parisian musical top is a reference address for the artists on tour in the City of Lights. The hall of concerts and shows was inaugurated February 3rd, 1984 and initially had to replace the « Vel' d'Hiv' » destroyed in 1959. In its origin, the project planned an only sports use with a capacity limited to 7500 places but finally a multi-functional orientation concert, sport and big showwas held. After the numerous innovations brought during the renovation in 2014 and 2015, the multi-purpose room can welcome from now on up to 20 000 people. According to the events, the room can be arrange in a 360 degrees show arena, or in U form arena. For certain concerts, places in pit stand face or around the stage. The first artist to inaugurate the (stage) of the Bercy was the German group Scorpions. The first French artist to organize a concert in Bercy is Julien Clerc. Over the years, the artists, from stars of rock, to kings of the soul, crowded to organize concerts in Bercy. The list of the artists having already made a concert in Arena of Bercy is long, but if it was necessary to quote some from it, they would be Coldplay, Shakira, Beyoncé, Dorothée, Vanessa Paradis, Renaud, Daft Punk, Phil Collins, Placebo, Depeche Mode, Guns' N Roses, Muse, Paul McCartney, Céline Dion, Michel Sardou, Robbie Willians or Sir Elton John. Numerous were also the ones which recorded a live album of their concert in the AccorHotels Arena. The stars are not the only ones to choose Bercy as a concert. The most popular humorists, as Jean-Marie Bigard, Florence Foresti, or those of Jamel Comedy Club experienced this new AccorHotels Arena of Paris. The room was one of first ones to the world to welcome sporting events indoor and new: canoé-kayak, windsurfing board, ski, motorcycle, karting, climbing… Numerous competitions take place there: tennis tournament Paribas Master BNP, All-Star Game of basketball, world championships of Handball (on 2001, 2007, 2017), Judo ( 2011 ), Karate ( 2012 ), Table tennis (on 2003 and 2013), World of Ice hockey ( 2017 ) … AccorHotels Arena so welcomes a programming of more than 140 events a year and offers a reception and quality services. The room is 100 % connected to the WiFi and proposes numerous bars and thematic restorations. With more than 1,5 million spectators every year, AccorHotels Arena represents in the top 5 arenas the most frequented to the world, beside O2 Arena of London, the Madison Square Garden of New York or Staples Center of Los Angeles.