Faced with the strong heat that persists and is still announced for the next few days, the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolis is extending free access to swimming pools until August 31. The initiative was launched on July 22.
Free admission for all to the following swimming pools:
- Lambesc: Sunflower swimming pool
- Le Puy Sainte Réparade: Jean-Pierre Moré swimming pool
- Pertuis: Durance Luberon swimming pool
- Venelles: Sainte-Victoire swimming pool
- Aix-en-Provence: Yves Blanc swimming pool
- Les Milles: Claude Bollet swimming pool
- Bouc-Bel-Air: Guy Drut swimming pool
- Gardanne
- Trets
- Les Pennes Mirabeau: Jas de Rhode swimming pool
- Vitrolles: Alex Jany swimming pool
- Cassis
- Berre l’Etang
- Fuveau: Virginie Dedieu swimming pool
In MarseilleMayor Benoît Payan had already announced on August 11 the extension of free admission until August 31.
The initiative has already met with great success in three weeks: more than 50,000 bathers in Marseille and 125,000 in other swimming pools in the Metropolis, with attendance records recorded in major facilities such as Gardanne (more than 21,000 entries) or Venelles ( nearly 20,000 swimmers).
In Marseille, five municipal swimming pools are also reserved for the implementation of the “I learn to swim” system, which has already enabled the training of more than 5,000 young people from Marseille in swimming this year.