How the Paris Olympic Games transformed the Porte de la Chapelle

A statue of the late French lawyer and feminist activist Gisele Halimi at the Porte de la Chapelle, one of 10 statues of pioneering women unveiled at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. © AFP - Stéphane de Sakutin

A year ago, Paris was buzzing with the excitement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. While little infrastructure was built for the occasion, the neighbourhoods where new facilities did spring up – such as Porte de la Chapelle, in northern Paris – have been transformed.

At the northernmost point of Paris, the Porte de la Chapelle neighbourhood is separated from the Seine-Saint-Denis department only by the city's ring road – the péripherique.