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Champs Élysées—one of Paris’s most polluted roads—to be transformed into ‘extraordinary garden’

The Champs-Élysées, a 1.9km-long avenue in central Paris, will undergo a major €250m makeover following the 2024 Summer Olympics. The renovation was announced by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who said the plans will transform the congested road into an “extraordinary garden”. Designed in 1697 by André Le Nôtre as an extension of the…

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