Greetings from Paris, where you can swim in the Seine for the first time in a century

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This summer, for the first time since the 1920s, the Seine River is open for swimming! There are designated public swimming places and docks have been built at several, like this one near the Eiffel Tower. For years the city’s mayors have been promising to clean up the polluted river for swimming. Opening the river to bathers couldn’t have come at a better time, with Paris suffering from successive heat waves. So just like in Impressionist paintings and old sepia photos, Parisians can once again cool off in their river.