Pont Neuf and Square du Vert-Galant
The square of the Vert-Galant is located at the western tip of the Ãle de la Cité, in the district Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois of the 1st arrondissement. The level of the square is seven meters lower than the current level of the other parts of the island, which corresponds to the level that it had in the past. It is flooded or even totally submerged during the most important floods of the river Seine.
It was created by combining several small islands. The square owes its name to Henri IV, nicknamed "Vert-Galant" because of his many mistresses despite his advanced age.It was here that the two highest dignitaries of the Order of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay, were burned upon a scaffold on 18 March 1314.
Here you can see chestnut trees, yews, cherries, black walnuts, box elders (or ash maples), flowering apple trees, weeping willows, Bohemian olives, catalpa, robinias (locusts), ginkgo biloba, burning bushes and wig trees.
Paris, 2016
Pont Neuf and Square du Vert-Galant
The square of the Vert-Galant is located at the western tip of the Ãle de la Cité, in the district Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois of the 1st arrondissement. The level of the square is seven meters lower than the current level of the other parts of the island, which corresponds to the level that it had in the past. It is flooded or even totally submerged during the most important floods of the river Seine.
It was created by combining several small islands. The square owes its name to Henri IV, nicknamed "Vert-Galant" because of his many mistresses despite his advanced age.It was here that the two highest dignitaries of the Order of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay, were burned upon a scaffold on 18 March 1314.
Here you can see chestnut trees, yews, cherries, black walnuts, box elders (or ash maples), flowering apple trees, weeping willows, Bohemian olives, catalpa, robinias (locusts), ginkgo biloba, burning bushes and wig trees.
Paris, 2016