Guests enjoy the sunshine at Maison Sauvage in Paris on June 3, 2020.Charles Platiau/Reuters
- On Tuesday, restaurants, bars, and cafés in Paris, France, were allowed to reopen their terraces and outdoor spaces.
- Strict regulations are still in place. For example, diners must be seated at least three feet apart, significantly reducing restaurants' seating capacity.
- However, the city says it will temporarily allow eateries to extend their outdoor spaces onto sidewalks to allow for more guests.
Paris without its cafés is like New York City without its bodegas, or Italy without gelato.
You can almost feel Parisians' joy at being able to drink lattés in the sun once more, as the French capital's cafés, bars, and restaurants reopened their terraces on Tuesday, after almost three months of lockdown.
Other changes include the opening of museums, parks, and beaches nationwide, and of theaters, gyms, and pools in some areas of France. Nonessential travel within the country is permitted once more, and all schools can reopen, though only to a limited number of kids at once.
The City of Lights is slowly coming back to life.
Keep scrolling for before-and-after photos that show how Paris is emerging from lockdown.