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With a spectacular glass floor, solar panels and modernized pavilions offering pristine panoramic view to handicapped visitors, first floor of France's iconic tower Tour Eiffel appeared with a fresh look to its millions of fans.
After two years of works worth 30 billion euros (37.95 billion U.S. dollars), Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, earlier in the day, inaugurated the renovated 5,000-square-metre first floor.
Financed by SETE, the private company that owns 40 percent of the rights to the tower with the remaining shares owned by the city, the renovation aimed at attracting more tourists and visitors to the tower's largest floor and most deserted.
Thanks to the glass floor, visitors can see straight down to the ground from a height of 57 meters. And with four solar panels covering an area of 10 square meters, half of hot water needs would be supplied.
"I hear that Paris has lost its attractiveness. It is not true. It's an attractive city able to invent without damaging anything in our historic city," Paris Mayor said. Enditem
