Paris to turn Champs-Elysees into 1.2-mile ‘extraordinary garden’ to transform city’s famous avenue

Paris’s most famous street is set to undergo a £225million makeover to turn it into an ‘extraordinary garden’. The Champs-Elysees, which is normally clogged with traffic, will instead become a 1.2-mile stretch of greenery with tunnels of trees, green spaces and pedestrian zones. Under the plans, the number of cars on the street will be … Read more

Fascinating vintage images of 1950s Paris by Allan Hailstone from Notre-Dame to the Champs-Élysées

It’s Paris – but probably not as you know it. These amazing vintage images, taken in the 1950s, show the streets of the French capital before they became packed with tourists waving selfie sticks and ‘influencers’ posing for Instagram. They were taken by photographer Allan Hailstone in the 1950s over the course of two short … Read more