(UPDATE) PARIS — Paris has chosen the iconic Champs-Elysees avenue and the historic Place de la Concorde to host the opening ceremony for the Summer Paralympics on Wednesday.
PARIS — Paris has chosen the iconic Champs-Elysees avenue and the historic Place de la Concorde to host the opening ceremony for the Summer Paralympics on Wednesday.The prestigious avenue sweeping through the 8th arrondissement to the west of central Paris is dotted with cafes, palaces and luxury shops and connects the Arc de Triomphe in the west with Place de la Concorde in the east in a single straight line.
France has celebrated two football World Cup victories there, the traditional military parade on July 14, the Bastille Day national holiday, and the Tour de France cycle race.Hundreds of thousands of Parisians and tourists gather there to celebrate New Year's Eve.Once fields and fallow land, the avenue started to take shape when Louis XIV's city planner first linked the Louvre to the Tuileries Garden in the mid-17th century.
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