Though the city has talked about cleaning up the Seine since the 1990s, the real push came in 2015 when Paris made a bid to ...

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...

Three sites will be able to welcome over 1,000 swimmers daily until August 31, local officials said, to the delight of the ...

The French capital's iconic waterway has been largely closed to swimmers since 1923 due to pollution and risks from river ...

A year after the long-polluted River Seine was cleaned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, French officials opened multiple sites ...

PARIS — Cries of “It is warm!” rang out across the Seine on Saturday morning as Parisians jumped into the river — legally — ...

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 ...

In Samoreau, in the Pays de Fontainebleau in Seine-et-Marne, La Buvette is that guinguette spot on the banks of the Seine ...

Parisians celebrated as the Seine reopened for swimming after 100 years, following a massive cleanup project that restored ...

Swimming in the Seine had been illegal since 1923, with a few exceptions, due to pollution and risks posed by river ...

From September 23, 2025, Blanca Li's Le Bal de Paris plunges twelve spectators at a time into an immersive experience ...

For the first time since the 1920s, Parisians can legally bathe in their river. Despite the naysayers’ grim warnings, our hesitant columnist tests the waters ...