Paris - The Eiffel Tower has been given a new glass floor as part of a £24-million refit.
Visitors to the Paris landmark will feel they are walking on air as they gaze across the city from the first-floor platform 187ft above ground.
“It’s an incredible feeling,” said Stephen Laine, a 48-year-old British tourist visiting with his wife and four children.
“It was scary at first, because your brain tells you that you might be about to fall through, but you soon get used to it.”
Engineer Gustave Eiffel’s 1 063ft iron lattice edifice was built as an entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair and was meant to be dismantled in 1909.
It was reprieved and is now the most popular paid-for tourist attraction in the world, with almost seven million visitors last year.
It has three levels for visitors, the highest of which is 906ft up. But long queues mean many only get as far as the first floor. The refit includes new solar panels and the opening of a museum telling the tower’s history. - Daily Mail