The mayor of Paris announced the opening, after more than a century of ban, of three sites fitted out to allow swimming.
After the athletes, place to the public. During the Olympic Games last summer, the Seine welcomed the spray and triathlon swimming events. A year later, as promised, three monitored swimming areas will open this summer in the heart of Paris: at the Quai de Bercy, Grenelle arm and Marie Bras. After more than 100 years of ban in the capital, it will therefore be possible to prick a head from July 5 until August 31, with gauges of 150 to 200 people per site, the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, at a press conference on Wednesday. In the neighboring (and upstream) department of Val-de-Marne, on 14 identified swimming sites, two will also open from June 28 on the Marne, Maisons-Alfort and Joinville-le-Pont.
The Seine Baignable, “It is first to respond to an objective of adaptation to climate change, recalled the mayor. The more the temperatures will evolve, the more we have to go find spaces of freshness for the population, so that the city remains habitable. And then it is a goal of quality of life ”. Showers, changing rooms and basins delimited by buoys … The idea is that there is as little infrastructure as possible, she said. “When you swim in free water, it is that you don’t want to be in the pool. The experience must be wilder ”. Only the Grenelle site will be fitted out with a pool with a background to accommodate children. The Bras Marie website, “More complex in the cohabitation of uses” especially with the boatmen, will be provisional; Two other sites are being studied to replace it next year.
Visual of the Bath of Bras Marie. Paris Town Hall
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