{"id":62928,"date":"2025-07-04T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=62928"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:35:44","slug":"france-reopens-seine-for-swimming-after-century-long-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2025\/07\/04\/france-reopens-seine-for-swimming-after-century-long-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"France reopens Seine for swimming after century-long ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After more than a century, Parisians are finally being invited to dive back into the city\u2019s most iconic waterway, Euronews reported.<br>Public swimming in Paris\u2019 Seine River is due to make a comeback over a century after it was banned, with just a few exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on 5 July, three public swimming sites will open along the Seine River &#8211; one near Notre Dame, another by the Eiffel Tower, and a third in eastern Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reopening is part of one of the French capital\u2019s most ambitious Olympic legacies. The river has undergone a massive cleanup operation to transform it from a polluted, boat-choked artery into a swimmable urban oasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sites will be free to use, supervised by lifeguards, and will operate on a daily schedule throughout the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a century, Parisians are finally being invited to dive back into the city\u2019s most iconic waterway, Euronews reported.Public swimming in Paris\u2019 Seine River is due to make a comeback over a century after it was banned, with just a few exceptions. Starting on 5 July, three public swimming sites will open along &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62930,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions\/62930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}