Since the end of January, the town hall of Paris has started work on the Place de la Concorde. The renovations of the gatehouses should be completed at the start of the 2023 school year and the fountains in April. Le Figaro / Amélie Com
As the square threatens ruin, the City has ordered emergency restorations before the 2024 Olympic Games. More important work should be undertaken afterwards.
The City of Paris has made good resolutions for 2023. The renovation of Place de la Concorde is at the top of its list, after having been postponed for a long time. The first scaffolding appeared there last week. Abandoned for too long, the large esplanade, both historic and motorway, on the borders of the Tuileries Gardens and the Champs-Élysées, is going to get a makeover. Finally, Parisians and tourists sigh: fountains with random watering, crumbling statues, abandoned sentry boxes, rostral columns attacked by rust, lampposts with broken or even missing windows, broken pavement, missing balustrades… The landscape offered by this vast space in the heart of the capital had become deplorable.
But it will take time to restore the Concorde, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to a look worthy of its rank. “For the moment we are only doing catering, the rest will come after the Olympic Games »temper the…
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