Lawmakers in the French capital vote
to set up designated clothes-free area
on city’s edge
Paris could set up a park for nudists
as early as next summer, in a possible
first for a capital city, in a country that
is the world’s top destination for
clothes-free leisure lovers.
Paris lawmakers voted late on
Monday to approve a proposal by
ecologists to set up the zone, possibly
in one of two major wooded areas on
the edge of the city.
Naturism “is developing and Paris so
far has nowhere” to practise it, said
David Belliard, co-chair of the
ecologist group in the city council.
He noted that 2
million French
people practise
naturism, which
is already
possible in
several European
cities including
Barcelona, Berlin
and Munich.
With more than 100 clothes-free
beaches and numerous holiday
camps, France is the world’s No 1
destination for naturists, said Bruno
Julliard, deputy to Paris’s socialist
mayor, Anne Hidalgo.
Describing the “respectable demand”
for somewhere to bare all in the
French capital, he said the next step
was to choose a location.
This could be in one of Paris’s two
main woods – the Bois de Boulogne to
the west, and Bois de Vincennes to the
east – “near a lake, in a regulated
setting so that there is no threat to
public order,” he added.
Paris mayor
heralds
‘reconquest of
Seine’ as
riverbank traffic
banned
Source-https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/26/what-an-eiffel-paris-approves-proposal-for-nudist-park?CMP=twt_gu

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