PadlovePasserelle Senghor, a vow between the arts
From the Musée d’Orsay to the Tuileries garden, a pas de deux.
All wood and steel, the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor links the Musée d’Orsay to the Tuileries garden. At dusk, the light turns pink — the colour of a vow being sealed. It is a place for poets, worthy of the man who gave it his name.
The story of the place
Opened in 1999 as the Passerelle Solférino, it was renamed in 2006 in tribute to Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet and first president of Senegal, a singer of love and of brotherhood between peoples.
Its deck of exotic wood and its double curve make it a place for strolling and for meeting. People come to watch the Seine, Orsay and the sun going down behind the Grand Palais — a setting made for promising each other a future.
Why seal your love lock here
- The most beautiful sunset in Paris over the Seine, due west.
- A link between two temples of art: Orsay and the Tuileries.
- A living tribute to the poet of love, Léopold Sédar Senghor.
It is one of the few entirely pedestrian footbridges in Paris: here, all you do is stroll, gaze at each other and make promises.
Continue the journey
- Pont des Arts — The bridge of lovers from all over the world, made eternal.
- Pont de l’Archevêché — The narrowest of Paris bridges, the widest for hearts.
- Pont Neuf — Four centuries of love, at the tip of the Île de la Cité.