A square in the heart of Paris will soon bear the names of Bulgarian-born artist Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff) and ...

Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments. From the Eiffel Tower to Notre-Dame, including Pont Alexandre III, the ...

“Paris Plages” transforms the banks of the Seine over several kilometers (miles) into an open-air paradise with beach bars, ...

The annual event Open Swim Paris, which was scheduled to take place in the Seine River, has been cancelled due to bad weather ...

Three Turkish mayors who are members of a political party that opposes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were arrested ...

The Seine River in Paris has reopened to the public for swimming for the first time in 100 years, following a $1.5 billion ...

Parisians and visitors looking to cool off this summer can dive in -- weather permitting -- at three bathing sites.

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