FRANCE: To mark Christmas season, giant Christmas tree hangs upside down between 1st and 2nd floors of the Eiffel Tower

To give the famous Paris landmark a festive look, a 25-metre high green cone-shaped light symbolising a Christmas tree was suspended between the first and second floors of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Thursday night (December 21). The brightly-lit Christmas tree is attached at the bottom so that the top hangs down. A surprise was also waiting for tourists on the first floor of Paris' most popular monument where the doors of crowded lifts opened on an interactive labyrinth. "It's free for free, it's for the same price of the ticket to go up the Eiffel Tower. There will be animations and here you have the labyrinth with Christmas trees and an animation inside the labyrinth. There are surprises, visitors will be asked to decorate fir trees, we will offer them many things while visiting the Eiffel Tower. Something special will happen and it's a way to give the visitors 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 spreads over 80 metres. Visitors young and old walked around to the sound of cracking branches or soft footsteps in the snow. Comedians dressed in trappers or polar bear outfits were also around to greet children and their parents. While enjoying the labyrinth, visitors also had a breathtaking view over the capital's rooftops and the River Seine. Some seven million people climb the 324-metre high tower every year. The labyrinth will be free of use to visitors of the tower.

ITN Source | December 28, 2006

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