New bridge

Although called the New Bridge, it is actually the oldest bridge in Paris. The new bridge is a favorite place of artists, writers and filmmakers, it has been immortalized in numerous works of modern art.

In 1578, King Henry III, its founder, laid the first stone in it, then King Henry IV in 1607 opened it and consecrated it, after which the bridge was named. In 1985, the bridge fell into the hands of the artist Christo together with his wife Jeanne-Claude. Work on it lasted about 10 years, solely because it required the approval of the project by Mayor Jacques Chirac.

The new bridge was the first stone bridge to cross the Seine, which was not built houses, as the king believed that they might spoil the view of the Louvre, to which Henry IV was very interested.

The length of this twelve percent huge structure is 275 meters. In the central part of the bridge is a statue of Henry IV. The new bridge, like many bridges of the time, was built in the Romanesque style, namely in the form of a series of short arches.

The new bridge was one of the busiest places in Paris: temporary benches stretched on both sides, which disappeared only in the XIX century.

Nowadays, the bridge is also very popular, because it is the most romantic bridge in Paris, which connects the right and left banks of the River Seine with the western part of the island of Cité. We all remember how Juliette Binoche suffered in "The Lovers of Point Nave Bridge."