Paris France anchored boats « Bassin de l'Arsenal » « Port de l'Arsenal » summer Seine « Place de la Bastille »
anchored boats « Bassin de l'Arsenal » « Port de l'Arsenal » summer Seine « Place de la Bastille » Quay ships Floor-mats Water reflexion blue sky clouds Opéra Bastille Colonne de Juillet Canal Saint-Martin is a km long canal in Paris. It connects the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. The entrance of the canal is a double lock near Place de Stalingrad. Then, towards the river Seine, the canal is bordered by the quai de Valmy on one side and the quai de Jemmapes on the other. The canal continues to the Seine via the Port de l'Arsenal. The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris, where the Bastille prison stood until the 'Storming of the Bastille' and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution; no vestige of it remains. After the widespread destruction during the French revolution, the Bassin de l'Arsenal was excavated to replace the ditch that had been in place to draw water from the Seine to fill the moat at the Bastille fortress. (The Bastille, of course, was destroyed in the events of 14 July 1789 and the days that followed.) During the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth, the Bassin de l'Arsenal was a commercial port where goods were loaded and unloaded. Separated from the Seine by the Morland lockgate, the port was converted into a leisure port in 1983 by a decision of the Mairie de Paris (Paris City Hall) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and it is now run by the Association for the Leisure Port of Paris-Arsenal. The basin is part of France's national Voies navigables de France (VNF, Navigable Waterways of France) system. Since that time, it has been a marina (in French, a port de plaisance), for approximately 180 pleasure boats. L'Opéra de la Bastille (Bastille Opera) is a modern opera house in Paris, France. It is the home base of the Opéra National de Paris and was designed to replace the Palais Garnier, which is nowadays mainly used for ballet performances.
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Location: Paris Port de l’Arsénal boulevard Bourdon La Bastille
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