ÃŽle aux Cygnes

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The Ile aux Cygnes ( Swan Island) is a 890 meters long and 20 meters wide artificial island in the Seine in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower. The island, originally a 1825 -scale dam is not to be confused with the former Ile des Cygnes ( Swan Island), a small His island, which was in 1773 connected to the Champ de Mars, the field maneuvers of the Paris Military School.

At the western end of the island is a 11.5 meter high west-facing copy of the Statue of Liberty, which thus looks towards the Atlantic and to her "big sister " in New York Harbor. On the island you will find the Allée des Cygnes, a promenade of 322 trees framed.

In the East, leads the striking, 237 -meter-long Pont de Bir -Hakeim bridge with two levels and several sections on the Seine: a 114 -meter-long bridge part crosses the wider Seinearm, the middle section is based on the dam, a 90-meter- long section spanned the narrower arm of the Seine. The lower level is done in the middle of the pillars of the viaduct and on the sides of the two -lined sidewalks roadways. About the upper layer drives the Métro. It is connected at both ends with an " access viaduct ", which opens into the metro tunnels of the station Passy in the north.