FRANCE: To mark the Christmas season, a giant Christmas tree is hung upside down between the 2nd and 1st floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Record ID: 730551

  • Title: FRANCE: To mark the Christmas season, a giant Christmas tree is hung upside down between the 2nd and 1st floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
  • Date: 22nd November 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (French) PRESIDENT DIRECTOR GENERAL OF EIFFEL TOWER, JEAN-BERNARD BROS, SAYING : "It's free to visitors to the Eiffel Tower. There will be animation and here you have the labyrinth with Christmas trees and animation inside the labyrinth. There are surprises, visitors will be asked to decorate fir trees, we will offer them many things while they visit the Eiffel Tower. Something special will happen and it's a way to give the visitor the desire to rediscover the Eiffel Tower."
  • Embargoed: 7th December 2006 12:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVA636X7HK38D4E85J1J4YN0PFMY
  • Story Text: As Christmas approaches, a 25-metre high green cone-shaped light symbolising a Christmas tree was suspended between the second and first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Thursday night (December 21).
    The brightly shining, symbolic Christmas tree is attached at the bottom so that the top hangs down.
    A surprise was also awaiting tourists on the first floor of Paris' most popular monument where the doors of crowded lifts opened on an interactive labyrinth.
    "It's free to visitors to the Eiffel Tower. There will be animation and here you have the labyrinth with Christmas trees and animation inside the labyrinth. There are surprises, visitors will be asked to decorate fir trees, we will offer them many things while they visit the Eiffel Tower. Something special will happen and it's a way to give the visitor the desire to rediscover the Eiffel Tower," said Jean Bernard Bros, President Director General of the Eiffel Tower Group (SNTE - National Society of the Eiffel Tower).
    A labyrinth meanders in and out of a forest of illuminated Christmas trees spread out over 80 metres long and visitors and children in wonder strolled to the sound of cracking branches or soft footsteps in the snow. Actors dressed as trappers or polar bears were also around to greet children and their parents.
    While enjoying the labyrinth, visitors also have a breathtaking view over the capital's rooftops and the Seine River.
    Some 7 million people climb the 324-metre high tower every year and the labyrinth will be free to visitors to the tower.
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