There are many

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s in the city of

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

, principally over the

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, but also over the Canal de l'Ourcq.

Statistics

In 2006, Paris had: * 148 bridges over the '' Boulevard Périphérique'' * 58 bridges used to carry Parisian streets over each other * 49 ''passerelles piétonnières'' (pedestrian bridges) * 37 bridges over the

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* 33 bridges used by the

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffic ...

* 10 bridges used by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP)

Seine

Paris has 37 bridges across the Seine, of which 5 are pedestrian only and 2 are rail bridges. Three link

Île Saint-Louis Île Saint-Louis (), in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris by ...

to the rest of Paris, 8 do the same for Île de la Cité and one links the 2 islands to each other. A list follows, from upstream to downstream : # Pont amont (carrying the Boulevard Périphérique, situated at the river's entry to the city) # Pont National # Pont de Tolbiac #

Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir The Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir (initially known by the provisional name of passerelle Bercy-Tolbiac) is a bridge solely for pedestrians and cyclists across the Seine River in Paris. It is the 37th bridge on the Seine in Paris. It is located b ...

(pedestrian), inaugurated 13 July 2006 #

Pont de Bercy The Pont de Bercy (English: Bridge of Bercy) is a bridge over the Seine in Paris. It links the 12th and 13th arrondissement of Paris by extending the Boulevard de Bercy and Boulevard Vincent-Auriol. In addition to the roadway, the bridge also ...

(made up of a railway bridge carrying the Line 6 of the Paris Métro and another stage for road traffic) ; # Pont Charles-de-Gaulle (1996) # Viaduc d'Austerlitz (railway bridge used for Line 5 of the métro), directly followed on the

Rive Droite The Rive Droite (, ''Right Bank'') is most commonly associated with the river Seine in central Paris. Here, the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city into two parts. When facing downstream, the northern bank is to the right, and the so ...

by the , #

Pont d'Austerlitz The Pont d'Austerlitz is a bridge which crosses the Seine River in Paris, France. It owes its name to the battle of Austerlitz (1805). Location The bridge links the 12th arrondissement at the rue Ledru-Rollin, to the 5th and 13th arrondissements, ...

Pont de Sully The Pont de Sully (or Pont Sully; ) is a bridge across the Seine in Paris, France. In reality two separate bridges, carrying the Boulevard Henri IV, which meet on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The no ...

(crosses the eastern corner of Île Saint-Louis) #

Pont de la Tournelle The (''Tournelle Bridge'' in English), is an arch bridge spanning the river Seine in Paris. History The location of the is the site of successive structures. The first, a wooden bridge, was built in 1620. This bridge connected the Eastern ban ...

(between the Rive Gauche and the Île Saint-Louis) #

Pont Marie The Pont Marie is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France. The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l'Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow traffic flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left a ...

(between Île Saint-Louis and the rive droite) #

Pont Louis-Philippe The Pont Louis-Philippe is a bridge across the River Seine in Paris. It is located in the 4th arrondissement, and it links the Quai de Bourbon on the Île Saint-Louis with the Saint-Gervais neighborhood on the right bank. History On 29 July 1 ...

(between Île Saint-Louis and the rive droite) #

Pont Saint-Louis The pont Saint-Louis is a pedestrian bridge across the River Seine in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. It links the Île de la Cité with the Île Saint-Louis. It is served by the Cité stop of the Paris Metro Paris () is the capital ...

(pedestrian zone, between Île de la Cité and the Île Saint-Louis) #

Pont de l'Archevêché The Pont de l'Archevêché (Archbishop's Bridge) is a bridge crossing the Seine river in Paris, France. Location The bridge links the 4th Arrondissement, at the Île de la Cité, to the 5th Arrondissement, between the quai de Montebello and ...

(between the rive gauche and Île de la Cité) #

Pont au Double The Pont au Double is a bridge over the Seine in Paris, France. Location The bridge links the 4th and 5th arrondissements of Paris, from the Île de la Cité to the quai de Montebello. History In 1515, Francis I was asked to build a bridg ...

(between the rive gauche and Île de la Cité) #

Pont d'Arcole The Pont d'Arcole is a bridge in Paris over the River Seine. It is served by the Metro station Hôtel de Ville. History The need for a bridge communicating between place de Grève (now Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville) and the île de la Cité h ...

(between Île de la Cité and the rive droite) #

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(between the rive gauche and Île de la Cité) # Pont Notre-Dame (between the Île de la Cité and the rive droite) #

Pont Saint-Michel Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité. It was named after the nearby chapel of Saint-Michel. It is near Sainte Chapelle and the Palais de Justice. The present 6 ...

(between the Rive Gauche and the Île de la Cité) # Pont au Change (between the Île de la Cité and the

) #

Pont Neuf The Pont Neuf (, "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC ...

(crossing the west corner of the Île de la Cité, Paris's oldest bridge, built between 1578 and 1607) # Passerelle des Arts (pedestrian) # Pont du Carrousel # Pont Royal # Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (1999) (pedestrian, formerly the Passerelle de Solférino, renamed in 2006) # Pont de la Concorde #

Pont Alexandre III The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower. The bridge is widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge in the ci ...

Pont des Invalides The Pont des Invalides is the lowest bridge traversing the Seine in Paris. History The story of this bridge started in 1821, when engineer Claude Navier conceived a technologically revolutionary bridge that crossed the Seine in one single reac ...

Pont de l'Alma The Pont de l'Alma ( en, Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Ottoman-Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian a ...

Passerelle Debilly The Passerelle Debilly (''Debilly Footbridge'') is a through arch bridge situated in Paris bestriding the Seine. It is a footbridge that connects the ''quai de New York'' to the ''quai Branly'', close to the Eiffel Tower. History In order to ...

(pedestrian) #

Pont d'Iéna Pont d'Iéna ("Jena Bridge") is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank to the district of Trocadéro on the Right Bank. History In 1807, by an imperial decree issued in Warsaw, Napoleon I order ...

Pont de Bir-Hakeim The Pont de Bir-Hakeim (English: Bridge of Bir-Hakeim), formerly the Pont de Passy (Bridge of Passy), is a bridge that crosses the Seine in Paris. It connects the 15th and 16th arrondissement, passing through the Île aux Cygnes. The bridge, mad ...

(crossing the Île aux Cygnes, comprising one stage with a railway bridge carrying Line 6 of the Paris Métro and another for road traffic) # Pont Rouelle (rail viaduct for line C of the RER crossing the Île aux Cygnes) # Pont de Grenelle (crossing the Île aux Cygnes) #

Pont Mirabeau The pont Mirabeau in Paris was built between 1895 and 1897. It was listed a historical monument in 1975. Geography The bridge spans the Seine from the 15th arrondissement (left bank), to the 16th arrondissement. It links rue de la Convention ...

# Pont du Garigliano # Pont aval (used by the boulevard périphérique, at the river's exit from the city)

Parisian canals

The are crossed by a number of bridges – the majority of which are ''passerelles piétonnes'' (footbridges) – and many of the road bridges can be raised or turned (temporarily interrupting road traffic) to allow canal traffic through. * On the canal de l'Ourcq : ** Pont de la rue de l'Ourcq ** Passerelle de la rue de Crimée ** Pont levant de la rue de Crimée * On the canal Saint-Denis : ** Boulevard Périphérique ** Boulevard Macdonald ** Avenue Corentin-Cariou * On the

canal Saint-Martin The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.6 km (2.86 mi) long canal in Paris, connecting the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. Over nearly half its length (), between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille, it was covered, in the m ...

: ** Pont de la rue Louis Blanc ** Passerelle Bichat ** Pont tournant de la Grange aux Belles ** Passerelle Richerand ** Passerelle Alibert ** Pont tournant de la rue Dieu ** Passerelle des Douanes * At the level of the bassin de l'Arsenal : ** Passerelle de Mornay ** Pont Morland ** Pont-métro Morland

''Passerelles piétonnières''

Paris has 49 ''passerelles piétonnières'' (footbridges), listed by arrondissement: *

1st arrondissement of Paris The 1st arrondissement of Paris (''Ier arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as ''le premier'' (the first). I ...

: ** Passerelle Baillet ** Passerelle des Tuileries *

4th arrondissement of Paris The 4th arrondissement of Paris (''IVe arrondissement'') is one of the twenty arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''quatrième''. Along with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd arrondissements ...

: ** Passerelle de l'Hôtel-de-Ville * 6th arrondissement of Paris : ** Pont des Arts * 7th arrondissement of Paris : ** Passerelle du Bac **

** Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor * 9th arrondissement of Paris : ** Pont de Cristal ** Passerelle de Crimée ** Passerelle Le Peletier ** Passerelle de Mogador ** Passerelle de la rue de Provence ** Passerelle Sainte-Cécile *

10th arrondissement of Paris The 10th arrondissement of Paris (''Xe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dixième'' ("10th arrondissement of Paris" = "dixième arrondisse ...

: ** Passerelle des Douanes ** Passerelle Alibert ** Passerelle Richerand ** Passerelle de la Grange-aux-Belles ** Passerelle Bichat ** Passerelle de la rue de Maubeuge *

12th arrondissement of Paris The 12th arrondissement of Paris (''XIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le douzième'' ("the twelfth"). Situated on the right bank of the River Seine, it ...

: ** Passerelle de l'Arsenal ** Passerelle des Meuniers ** Passerelle Reuilly ** Passerelle de Picpus *

13th arrondissement of Paris The 13th arrondissement of Paris (''XIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''treizième''. The arrondissement, called Gobelins, is situated ...

: ** Passerelle du Quai de la Gare ** Passerelle Corvisart ** Passerelle Alésia ** Passerelle Commandant René Mouchotte ** Passerelle Gergovie ** Passerelle Vercingétorix ** Passerelle Alain ** Passerelle Jean Zay ** Passerelle des Arts et Métiers ** Passerelle du Cambodge *

15th arrondissement of Paris 15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 and preceding 16. Mathematics 15 is: * A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and . * A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious nu ...

: ** Passerelle Bargues ** Passerelle du Capitaine Ménard ** Passerelle Ernest Renan ** Passerelle rue de l'Ingénieur Robert Keller ** Passerelle Leblanc ** Passerelle Procession ** Passerelle Tuileries ** Passerelle des Quatre frères Peignot *

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''seizième''. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de T ...

: ** Passerelle l'Alboni ** Passerelle de l'Avre ** Passerelle Géo André ** Passerelle Suzanne Lenglen * 17th arrondissement of Paris : ** Passerelle de la rue Juliette Lamber *

18th arrondissement of Paris The 18th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dix-huitième''. The arrondissement, known as Butte-Montmartr ...

: ** Passerelle de la rue Belhomme * 19th arrondissement of Paris : ** Passerelle des Ardennes ** Passerelle de Crimée ** Passerelle d'Hautpoul ** Passerelle de la Moselle ** Passerelle du Rond Point *

20th arrondissement of Paris The 20th arrondissement of Paris (known in French as the ''XXe arrondissement de Paris'' or simply as "''le vingtième''") is the last of the consecutively numbered arrondissements of the capital city of France. Also known as Ménilmontant () a ...

: ** Passerelle de la Mare ** Passerelle Lambeau ** Reshma Timsina Bridge

Miscellaneous

There are several other bridges in Paris which do not cross a body of water. In the 10th arrondissement,

Rue La Fayette The rue La Fayette is a street in the 9th district and 10th arrondissement of Paris between the rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin and the rue du Faubourg Poissonnière. History The street was opened in 1823. It was created by Claude Rambuteau and Geor ...

and Rue de l'Aqueduc pass over the train lines of gare de l'Est. On the boundary between the 5th and 13th arrondissements, boulevard de Port-Royal spans Rue Broca and Rue Pascal. In the

18th arrondissement The 18th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dix-huitième''. The arrondissement, known as Butte-Montmartr ...

, rue Caulaincourt is carried over the Montmartre Cemetery by a bridge. In the

20th arrondissement The 20th arrondissement of Paris (known in French as the ''XXe arrondissement de Paris'' or simply as "''le vingtième''") is the last of the consecutively numbered arrondissements of the capital city of France. Also known as Ménilmontant () af ...

, rue Charles-Renouvier spans

rue des Pyrénées ''Ruta graveolens'', commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of ''Ruta'' grown as an ornamental plant and herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula. It is grown throughout the world in gardens, especially for its bluis ...

. In the 8th arrondissement, rue du Rocher crosses rue de Madrid. Also, 2 and 6 of the Paris metro include several aerial viaducts in their above-ground zones, whilst RER C also has a viaduct along the length of quai André-Citroën. Footbridges may also be found in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont and parc de Reuilly. Among others, the

promenade plantée An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk. The historical definition of ''esplanade'' was a large, open, level area outside fortress or city walls to provide cle ...

uses the old viaduc Daumesnil. In bois de Vincennes, the islands of Bercy and of Reuilly are linked to each other, and the east of the latter to the rest of the park. The line for the chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture also includes several bridges and viaducts, as well as footbridges across it such as that carrying rue de la Mare in the

References

External links

* The city's official site. * City article on canals * Detailed and documented list of Paris' bridges. * Historical photos from the present-day and the 1900s. * Lists of Paris' works of art, including bridges. * {{Paris Tourist attractions in Paris

Bridges A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually someth ...