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Fashion shows, flea markets, concerts… In Paris, is public space saturated by events?

2024-02-17T05:29:57.211Z

Highlights: For a little less than two months, an ephemeral ‘urban park’ has been set up over an entire part of Place de la Concorde. Under the shy sun of this early afternoon, dozens of children are learning parkour, 3-on-3 basketball and even BMX. “I think it’s great,” Célia enthuses. It's much better than with cars. And the setting is great, at the foot of the obelisk and a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower!


In the capital, the question of the occupation of public space for the benefit of different types of demonstrations is regularly debated. R


The stopover at Place de la Concorde was an essential part of the route.

To take advantage of this first Monday of school holidays, Célia first took her 5-year-old daughter to the Musée de l'Homme, a stone's throw from the Trocadéro (16th century).

“The idea was then to reach the Tuileries on foot,” adds this thirty-year-old engineer.

But we came across all these free activities here, so we stayed.

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Under the shy sun of this early afternoon, dozens of children are learning parkour, 3-on-3 basketball and even BMX.

For a little less than two months, an ephemeral “urban park” has been set up over an entire part of Place de la Concorde.

“I think it’s great,” Célia enthuses.

It's much better than with cars.

And the setting is great, at the foot of the obelisk and a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower!

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Source: leparis

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