Paris: the Pont au Double reopens to pedestrians to access to the Notre-Dame cathedral

Published by Graziella de Sortiraparis · Photos by Graziella de Sortiraparis · Published on September 11th, 2022 at 10:48 a.m.
After 3.5 years of renovations following the fire of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, the Pont au Double recently reopened to pedestrians to access the landmark and Île de la Cité more easily.

The renovations of the Notre-Dame cathedral are coming along nicely, and the reopening of the Pont au Double, 3.5 years after the fire, is a symbolical change limiting the impact of the work site. As a matter of fact, visitors could already access the parvis of the monument thanks to the Petit Pont, but with this one, everyone will be able to walk their usual road to the Ile de la Cité, to surrounding storekeepers’ greatest joy.

This wooden bridge, joining the parvis to Quai de Montebello reopened this Thursday September 8, with local representatives, happy to show the progress of the renovations likely to be almost done for 2024. The parvis area set around the statue of Charlemagne was inaugurated again too. Storekeepers hope it will help them relaunch their economy by the cathedral as it dropped since it closed. Furthermore, those set North of the building are still impacted by this lack of visibility.

Emmanuel Grégoire, first Paris deputy mayor, told BFMTV he was “very happy the reliberation of these areas can bring flow and more tourists back”.

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Location

Cathédrale Notre-Dame
75004 Paris 4

Access
Metro - RER: - Cité (4) - Saint Michel - Notre-Dame (B,C) - Hôtel de Ville (1,11) - Maubert-Mutualité / Cluny - La Sorbonne (10) - Châtelet - Les Halles (7,14,A,D)

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