The Champs Elysées go green!

Twenty years after the “Great Harvest” event, Gad Weil and his team go back to the Champs Elysées for another spectacular vegetal event: Nature Capitale. At the end of the International Biodiversity Day, Nature Capitale will take over the cobblestones, allowing to the public, as of the break of dawn, 2 days and one night of silenced engines and rustling winds through the trees.

The Champs Élysées will transform itself into a vegetal strolling ground from May 22nd to 24th.

More than 20 years after conceiving and organizing the Great Harvest that had turned the avenue in a large wheatfield, Gad Weil, creator and instigator of street arts, does it again! On May 22nd to 24th, he will unveil Nature Capitale, transforming this time the Champs Élysées into a green promenade, and all this in collaboration with Laurence Medioni, designer and landscape gardener. A powerful yet poetic staging will give to this man-shaped nature its full dimension, right in the heart of the city.

In the evening of the International Biodiversity Day on May 22nd, the kilometer extending between the Arc de Triomphe and the Rond-Point des Champs Elysées will be entirely covered with grass, plants, flowers and trees: a total of 130 varieties. The goal is to draw the public’s attention to the work of farmers and foresters, the first landscape artists in France. As in 1992, the Young Farmers’ Union is providing all the plants, helped this time by France Wood and Forest professionals.

The many sections used to transform the Champs Elysées Avenue next May have been for sale on the Nature Capitale website since March 21st, providing the opportunity to take home part of this groundbreaking event.

Of course, the Avenue from the Arc de Triomphe to the Rond Point will be closed to traffic for the occasion.