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For the first time in over 100 years, Parisians and tourists can now swim in the Seine, following a 1.4 billion euro cleanup ...
Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments.
For the first time in 100 years, Parisians and tourists enjoyed swimming in the Seine River. The river had been closed to ...
Paris has opened portions of the Rive Seine for swimming for the first time in more than a century, fulfilling a promise of ...
The return to swimming follows a 1.4 billion euro ($1.5 billion) cleanup project tied to last year’s Olympics.
“Paris Plages” transforms the banks of the Seine over several kilometers (miles) into an open-air paradise with beach bars, ...
Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time ...
Parisians and visitors looking to cool off this summer can dive in -- weather permitting -- at three bathing sites.
First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...
The famed Seine river in Paris opened to the public for swimming on Saturday for the first time in over a 100 years, a key ...
Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold ...
The French capital's iconic waterway has been largely closed to swimmers since 1923 due to pollution and risks from river ...