The oldest cinema in the world is in La Ciotat, according to the "Guiness Book"

The first films of the Lumières brothers were screened there.

The Eden-Théâtre, located in La Ciotat, near Marseille, has been officially recognized as the oldest operating cinema in the world by the

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Inaugurated on June 15, 1889 in this small Mediterranean port which then had only 12,000 inhabitants (more than 35,000 today), the Eden-Théâtre hosted in its early stages theatrical performances, concerts and even boxing sports matches or Greco-Roman wrestling, explains the cinema website.

"It is an administrative file of more than two years of research which finds its reward", greeted in a press release Michel Cornille, president of the association Les lights de l'Eden, operator of the establishment which celebrated its 132 years in June.

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