In the middle of the hundreds of meters of metal barriers erected, backhoe loaders and crane trucks accompany a ballet of security guards, workers and technicians in fluorescent vests.
This week, residents of the Champ-de-Mars (7th arrondissement) are learning to coexist with a major construction site which will, over the next four months, transform the site in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Setting up the site competition, one of the seven heritage sites selected for the Games in the capital, has started.
Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, the Champ-de-Mars will host beach volleyball and blind football events from July 26 to September 8, in what must become “a temporary open-air arena”, promises Paris 2024 on his site.
On the outskirts of this 24 ha green lung, which connects the Trocadéro to the Military School, today plagued by insecurity, traders - the guinguette, the Guignol theater and the karting - have already been forced to fold baggage to clear the way before the Games.
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