Faced with the extension of the health pass, the Eiffel Tower is innovating to attract visitors.
From this Wednesday, it will offer antigenic tests to its visitors without an anti-Covid health pass, announced its manager.
From 8:30 am Wednesday, one hour before the opening of the doors of the Iron Lady, visitors who cannot provide a health pass (proving the complete vaccination, a recent negative test or the immunization) will have to, if they want to access at the monument, undergo an antigen test in tents set up in front of each of the two entrances, just before the security check, indicates the Company for the exploitation of the Eiffel Tower (Sete).
Free tests for French visitors and paid tests for foreign tourists
This additional device "makes it possible to guarantee visitors a discovery of the monument in optimal conditions", commented Patrick Branco Ruivo, the director general of Sete, who says "to apply the decree" published Tuesday in the Official Journal.
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If these tests will be free for French visitors, foreign tourists not residing in France will have to pay 25 euros, as everywhere in France since July 7.
"We warned our visitors upstream", in particular by messages in all languages on the website, underlines Patrick Branco Ruivo who initially plans 1,500 tests per day - that is to say for one visitor in 10 - and 20 test inspectors. health pass.
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Among the most visited paid monuments in the world, the Eiffel Tower reopened Friday noon after eight and a half months of closure, its longest period without a visitor after the war.
Since Friday, this symbol of Paris has received between 10,000 and 13,000 tourists per day, the expected level which corresponds to half of its usual summer attendance.
If no sanitary gauge is provided at the entrance, the elevators of the first two floors can only take 50% of their usual load to enforce social distancing.
The mask is also compulsory.
