Paris approves nudist area for summer visitors to strip off
City councilors in Paris have approved plans for an experimental nudist area in the middle of the French capital next summer.
Visitors will be able to strip off in a designated area, possibly within one of the city’s parks or in a wooded area on the outskirts.
The plan, proposed by the Green Party, has the support of the Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Bruno Julliard.
Co-chairman of the ecologist group David Belliard said: "We’ve got two million nudists in France which is doubled during the summer with visitors.
"For them Paris is the world’s premier tourist destination and there’s no public place for them to go. We want to try out a recreational area where nudists can freely strip off," reported the BBC.
The most likely site is in one of Paris’s large woods, either the Bois de Boulogne or the Bois de Vincennes.
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