Seine & Pont des Arts & Musée d'Orsay & Quai du Louvre - Depuis Pont Neuf

            What a view! From Pont Neuf, looking west you first see the Pont des Arts over the river Seine. On the left you see Musée d'Orsay. Almost oposite Orsay (and after the Pont des Arts on this photo you see a glimpse of the LOUVRE. The cars, coming from one of the many tunnels on this Quai along the river Seine are on the Quai du Louvre section.

© Elisabeth de Ru

It has been some time since I uploaded to FLICKR. Now, with the confinement (and everything) I'm taking the time to sort my digital photo's (all 64.000+ of them). 

I am discovering photo's I forgot I had and/or did not pay attention to before. In the near future I will upload some of them so it's going to be some sort of a mix-match of 'things'.

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ABOUT PONT NEUF

The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known as Lutetia, and during the medieval period, the heart of the city.

The bridge is composed of two separate spans, one of five arches joining the left bank to the Île de la Cité, another of seven joining the island to the right bank. Old engraved maps of Paris show how, when the bridge was built, it just grazed the downstream tip of the Île de la Cité; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island. Today the tip of the island is the location of the Square du Vert-Galant, a small public park named in honour of Henry IV, nicknamed the "Green Gallant".

The name Pont Neuf was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses. It has remained after all of those were replaced. Despite its name, it is now the oldest bridge in Paris crossing the Seine. It has been listed since 1889 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

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