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Ports of Paris?
I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting
the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) |
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Ports of Paris?
"Christopher M." wrote in message
... I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) The show I was watching was 'Travelers' (1996). I guess they've been showing the Travelers show on the Discovery II channel in the UK. W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) |
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Ports of Paris?
Christopher wrote on Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:35:07 -0400:
"Christopher M." wrote in message ... I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) The show I was watching was 'Travelers' (1996). I guess they've been showing the Travelers show on the Discovery II channel in the UK. Does "ports" really refer to the old city gates ("Portes") of Paris? Before the Revolution you had to pay tariffs to bring in goods. I did not know there was much left of them. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Christopher M. writes:
I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? Maybe he was thinking of "ponts" ("bridges," in French). There is a Port Autonome de Paris that governs navigation of the river, but as far as I know there's only one. |
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Ports of Paris?
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:31:50 -0400, Christopher M. wroteÂ*:
I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) The 'port of Paris' is spread all along the Seine river, and mainly in Gennevilliers which is an industrial zone without much touristical interest. Tourists generally make a short trip on the Seine between the Arsenal and the Alma bridge in one of the many 'Bateaux Mouches' companies. Some with a dinner. The Arsenal basin is a small port near Bastille. From there you can have another, nice, river trip on the Saint-Martin Canal. http://www.lesvisitesdeparis.fr/en/site-detail.php?ID=1 |
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JuanElorza wrote on 10 Apr 2010 14:01:27 GMT:
I was watching a travel show about Paris, and one local recommended visiting the ports. I'm assuming he meant the ports along the Seine river. Are there ports on the Seine river that are popular tourist destinations? W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.) The 'port of Paris' is spread all along the Seine river, and mainly in Gennevilliers which is an industrial zone without much touristical interest. Tourists generally make a short trip on the Seine between the Arsenal and the Alma bridge in one of the many 'Bateaux Mouches' companies. Some with a dinner. The Arsenal basin is a small port near Bastille. From there you can have another, nice, river trip on the Saint-Martin Canal. Further to my comment on "portes" or "ports" of Paris. I think Wikipedia is fairly accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_gates_of_Paris (The same information is given in French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portes_de_Paris ) I'll quote a small part. "While Paris is encircled by the boulevard périphérique (Paris ring road), the city gates of Paris ("portes de Paris") are the access points to the city for pedestrians and other road users. As Paris has had successive ring roads through the centuries, city gates are found inside the modern-day Paris." -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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James Silverton writes:
"While Paris is encircled by the boulevard périphérique (Paris ring road), the city gates of Paris ("portes de Paris") are the access points to the city for pedestrians and other road users. As Paris has had successive ring roads through the centuries, city gates are found inside the modern-day Paris." They usually have fairly large streets running through their former locations, but I wouldn't call them access points, especially for pedestrians. There is no wall around the city (apart from the semi-psychological wall of the ring road, which roughly follows old walls). |
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