{"id":239550,"date":"2025-07-05T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239550\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T07:42:10","slug":"frances-seine-reopens-to-swimmers-for-first-time-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239550\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Seine reopens to swimmers for first time in 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parisians and tourists will have the opportunity to swim in the river Seine starting on Saturday, after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/france?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">French<\/a> authorities lifted a ban that stood for over a century.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Three outdoor pools have been set up by Paris authorities: one opposite L\u2019\u00eele aux Cygnes (Swan Island) near the Eiffel Tower, one near Notre-Dame Cathedral, and one opposite the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pools feature changing rooms and showers, will be supervised by lifeguards and offer space for sunbathing, according to a statement from the city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Open throughout the summer, they are accessible free of charge up to capacity but only to people able to swim.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Water quality will be continuously monitored, as swimmers will be plunging directly into river water, the statement said. As the water is quite shallow, people will not be allowed to dive in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman sits on the Seine river banks during a heatwave on Tuesday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/26c977b0-14fc-40a8-8663-ee4d698c1522_239ce3ba.jpg\" title=\"A woman sits on the Seine river banks during a heatwave on Tuesday. Photo: AP\"\/>A woman sits on the Seine river banks during a heatwave on Tuesday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEveryone should be able to swim in the Seine starting this summer,\u201d said French Sports Minister Marie Barsacq when the move was announced in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parisians and tourists will have the opportunity to swim in the river Seine starting on Saturday, after French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[63192,93204,29304,2000,299,36,93207,93205,93206,1411,93208,93209],"class_list":{"0":"post-239550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-anne-hidalgo","9":"tag-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france","10":"tag-eiffel-tower","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-french-sports-minister-marie-barsacq","15":"tag-lile-aux-cygnes-swan-island","16":"tag-notre-dame-cathedral","17":"tag-paris","18":"tag-paris-olympics","19":"tag-river-seine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}