Visitors walk between planted fields on the Champs Elysees
in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Want a stroll in the country right in the heart of Paris?
Head for the Champs-Elysees, the French capital's most famous
avenue.
It's tossed out its city dress and gone country - transformed
into a vast garden of flowers, herbs and crops, and replete
with farm animals.
The two-day event that started yesterday during a holiday
period in France was drawing thousands of Parisians and
tourists strolling down the country lane, crowned by the Arc
de Triomphe.
It's aimed at instructing citydwellers in the values of
Mother Nature while highlighting the work of France's
farmers.
Gad Weil, whose Nature Capital group conceived the project,
says, "It's a way to remind people that man lives at the
heart of nature."
Nature, he said, is "our heritage."
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