Eiffel Tower View from the Seine River

Seine River provides view for some of the most visited attractions in Paris

Seine River, famous as romantic background photographs of Paris, is a smooth-sailing river and commercial waterway with Ile-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France. The river attracts so many tourists in Paris; there are excursion boats that offer sight-seeing tours within the city of Paris. Its whole length of boating can end in the Bay of the Seine region of the English Channel and as far as Burgundy near the Swiss Alps. A long way to go, but is negotiable by commercial riverboats because of the fact that there are just limited portions allowed for sight-seeing.

As legends foretold that when Joan of Arc was burned alive in 1431, her ashes were thrown in the Seine, historians persisted. In the death of Napoleon in 1821 and in accordance to his will, he wished to be buried on the banks of Seine but his request was not granted. The Seine flooded 20 feet above normal, and streets all over the city submerge with river flow thus sending thousands of Parisians to emergency shelter. So called the 1910 Great Flood of Paris was the worst flood ever since 1658.

On the contrary the river is a popular site for suicides and dumpsite of bodies of murder victims in the city. Sometimes, the sewage system in Paris experience sanitary sewer overflow, often during high rainfall. Under these conditions wherein they have no other ways but to discharged untreated sewage in the Seine. The resulting oxygen shortage is primary caused by allochthomous bacteria larger than one micron in dimension. These bacteria are usually three to four times bigger than that of the altochonous bacterial populace.

Approximately, 35 bridges are established over the Seine River within the city, two of which are the Pont Loius-Philippe and Pont Neuf. Several other bridges are located outside the city proper like the Pont de Normandie which links Le Havre to Honfleur.Seine (came from the Latin word Sequana, which means “sacred river”). After Normandy, the Seine is the second longest river in France. Seine River has been a big contribution to the city’s income.

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