Moved due to the Olympic Games, the Ferris Wheel finally returns to its legendary location in the Tuileries gardens, to allow tourists and Parisians to see the City of Lights from a little higher up, starting this Friday, October 18, 2024.
This summer, the emblematic Ferris Wheel of the Place de la Concorde had disappeared from the landscape, temporarily moved due to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sent to the Porte de la Muette side, she did not experience great success there but from this Friday, October 18, 2024, she returns for good in the superb Tuileries Gardena more than central location to admire the beauties of the capital 60m high !
It’s about time it came back since the famous Tuileries Christmas Market is soon back, and what would it be without its star tourist attraction? This time the wheel settles up early 2025and could well become sustainableaccording to the company Grandes Roues de France, managed by René Bufkens, at Parisian. He would like that in the future, tourists and lifelong Parisians alike will be able to enjoy it all year round, “of a historic element of Paris, in the same way as the London Eye“.
If it seems to us that the Big Wheel has always been there, it has nevertheless been installed for the first time in December 1985Marcel Campion then having arrived with several rides at the Jardin des Tuileries. A new sixty meter length was created in the year 2000 as a tribute to the original work inaugurated on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1900, before a final model, which underwent numerous adventures and displacements.
To discover Paris from above, visit every day of 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. !
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