Paris has opened portions of the Rive Seine for swimming for the first time in more than a century, fulfilling a promise of ...

The term is nothing new: it was first coined by a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, Hiroaki Ota, in the 1980s. He, and ...

Dozens of people arrived early in the morning on Saturday to paddle into the once-polluted water, following a clean-up ...

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

Continuing a visit to Paris, France, Secretary for Culture, Sports & Tourism Rosanna Law meets the Deputy Mayor of Paris, the ...

For the first time in more than a century, Parisians could make a splash in the River Seine on Saturday, July 5 ...

The current Paris heatwave is one of the hottest ever, but who cares when there are sleek new diving platforms jutting out into the Seine? More than a billion euro has been spent in an attempt to make ...

To show just how confident they were, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and other Olympic officials took the plunge themselves. They ...

Parisians have begun bathing in the Seine for the first time in over 100 years after a ban was lifted. The French capital has ...

Parisians can now swim in the River Seine legally for the first time since 1923 after a century-long ban. The opening made possible following an extensive clean-up operation spurred on by its use as a ...

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...