Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People take part in the swimming demonstration "Badeverbot wegschwimmen" against the ban on swimming in the Spree. Shireen ...

BERLIN — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there’s a push by swimmers to get back into the water. Around 200 ...

Swimmers cheer as they gather for a second swimming demonstration for the abolition of the swimming ban in the inner-city Spree river on August 12, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) Ever wanted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants swim in the Spree, during the swimming demonstration, held under the slogan "Vote to End 101 Years of the Swimming ...

Berlin (AFP) – Hundreds of Berliners gathered to take a dip in the Spree river Tuesday to protest a 100-year-old ban on swimming in the city's main waterway. Billed by organisers as a "swim ...

Hundreds of people leapt into the Spree River’s calm, green-tinged waters in Berlin’s historic Mitte district on Tuesday, aiming to show it is both clean and enjoyable for swimming. The event, ...

People swim in the river Spree to demand the lift of the hundred years old swimming ban at the river in front of the Stadtschloss or City Place in Berlin. — MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP A century after the ...

A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water. Around 200 people ...

Several hundred people in Berlin took part in a swim-in protest on Saturday against the century-old ban on bathing in the city's Spree River. A spokesman for the Flussbad Berlin association said there ...

BERLIN — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water. Around 200 ...