Visit Detroit published Detroit’s first Michelin Green Guide this week, highlighting the city’s top cultural attractions.

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Detroit is the 10th U.S. city to get a designated Michelin Green Guide. The guide will spotlight the city’s best visitor experiences from art and culture to architecture, music, neighborhoods and more.

The French manufacturer, which also rates restaurants and hotels, gave the Detroit Institute of Arts its highest honor — three stars. That puts the DIA on par with the Louvre in Paris. Michelin’s Philippe Orain says Detroit is a great city with a great history.

“It’s a very rich destination, and you can spend more than four days when you travel to Detroit. So that means that the city deserves a guidebook,” Orain said.

Michelin also awarded three stars to the Henry Ford Museum, Cranbrook, and the Guardian Building in downtown Detroit. The Green Guide is printed in French, but an English version will be available soon.

Other headlines for Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024:

• The city of Detroit declared a cold weather health emergency this week and is opening library branches and recreation centers as warming centers to help residents get respite from the cold. 
• People of Palmer Park  are looking for volunteers for their free WinterFest Multicultural Holiday Celebration this Sunday, Dec. 15.
• The Livernois Winter Festival is happening this Saturday, Dec. 14. Lucania Lavish Couture is hosting the event to draw traffic to the Livernois Avenue of Fashion.
• Dearborn Heights named its first ever Arab American Muslim Police Chief. Deputy Chief Hussein Farhat will take the post of Interim Police Chief, effective Jan. 6. 

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