Following the Olympic cleanup, the public can now swim in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, or East Paris.

Bathing sites will be located near the French capital’s Notre-Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and in eastern Paris.

Paris has reopened public swimming in the Seine River for the summer, allowing visitors to enjoy the waterway that was cleaned up for the 2024 Olympics.

Some 23,000 homes upstream of Paris also are emptying their sewage into the rainwater system that flows directly into the river, Riottot said. For the Olympics, only two indicators were being ...

Currently open to 1,000 bathers daily in three different cordoned swimming locations for free, Parisians are flocking to enjoy their river.

For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists are getting ready to take a refreshing dip in the Seine.

So with the Olympics coming to town once again, Paris decided in the mid-2010s to invest $1.5 billion in river improvements, like a water treatment plant in Champigny-sur-Marne and a 46,000-cubic ...

French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic ...

Paris has spent billions trying to clean up the Seine before the 2024 Olympics begin on July 26. Whether it will work is another story. French politicians say they would swim in the Seine to prove ...