Houseboats, River Seine at Port des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France

            The Parisian haze is good for sunbeams!

These péniches typify of the many houseboats lining the quais of central Paris. They're moored at Port des Champs-Élysées, which was granted to the Touring Club de France in 1938 as a 540m-long marina between Pont de la Concorde and Pont des Invalides (the bridge after next; two or its four arches are visible beneath the Pont Alexandre III).

Opposite, on the Rive Gauche, is the Quai d'Orsay. I remember it as a busy road (not long ago, really), but traffic has been channeled elsewhere and it's now pedestrianised.

The nearest bridge, ~280 m from here, is the Pont Alexandre III, one of my favourites (and Paris has good bridges!) – its Beaux-Arts structure and Art Nouveau decoration almost personify the city's fin de siècle golden age.
Designed by Joseph Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin, and built 1896–1900, the bridge spans the river as a single 160m-long, 6m-high arch, counterbalanced by four 17m-tall columns, capped by gilded statues of Fames restraining Pegasus. It was named for Alexander III of Russia, the penultimate tsar, who had enabled the 1892 Franco-Russian Alliance.

I doubt I need to identify the Eiffel Tower, 1.8 km away, but the spire visible behind the middle of the bridge is that of the église américaine de Paris, 800 m from here.

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Tuileries (show map)

Taken on: March 31, 2013

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Camera: Canon EOS 450D, f/10.0, 1/160 sec, 28mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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