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I just saw on the official Eiffel Tower website that they have embarked on their every 7 years painting of the tower. Is there any impact to visiting the Tower? Scaffolding or something like that?
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Painting the Eiffel Tower - impact to visit?
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They take stringent measures to ensure that the steady flow of visitors is unimpeded. When painting public areas, they will block off only the part that's being painted that day (one corner of the First Floor, for example), but the rest will be open as usual.
No impact at all other than photos not being perfect because of work material and some scaffolding in view.
well, there are lots of perfect Eiffel tower pictures out there - a bit of scaffolding will just make our anchored to a moment in time!
Thanks for your replies
V
No real impact. Nothing unusual (or avoidable) about scaffolding at old sites anywhere.
We ascended earlier this week. The lines were very long, e.g. well over an hour at ten p.m. midweek. Heard they were much longer during the day. And, Thursday, April 9, a strike by tower security (we were told) closed the tower to visitors. Nevertheless, as hope springs eternal, people queued at the Tower base in lines that would have taken hours to whittle.