WALK THE ROSE LINE IN PARIS

Today in Paris you can follow this line by searching for gold... The city of Paris and the Arago Association decided to honour the Paris Meridian in 1994, commissioning Dutch artist Jan Dibbets to take control of the project. Each 12cm medallion bears the word Arago on it, with pointers showing the direction north and south. There were 131 medallions originally, spanning nearly 6 miles. (Some have been stolen over the years, and some are impossible to find...)

These medallions are named after François Arago (1786-1853), a French astronomer, mathematician, physicist and politician. He calculated the precise location of the meridian, where the Arago Medallions are presently marked.

To walk the line: