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Île aux Cygnes
An island worth the crossing · Paris, France
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The experience
An artificial island built in the Seine in 1827, 850 metres long and only 11 metres at its widest, crossed by the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Pont Rouelle and Pont de Grenelle. A single tree-lined walkway, the Allée des Cygnes, runs its full length to the quarter-scale Statue of Liberty inaugurated on 4 July 1889. Apollinaire and Beckett both wrote about walking it.
A ten-minute walk down the middle of the Seine that most visitors never realise is possible.
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Where it is
Paris, France · Grenelle (15e). Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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