Date of Eiffel Tower’s opening for visitors revealed

The Eiffel Tower will reopen on July 16 after several months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Paris landmark's operator said on May 20, Report informs referring to AFP.

Visitor numbers will be limited to 10,000 a day to meet social distancing requirements, fewer than half of their pre-Covid-19 levels, operator Sete told Agence France-Presse.

All floors of the monument will be accessible to visitors, except some areas where renovation work is ongoing.

Only 50 percent of the usual numbers will be allowed in the lifts.

The reopening marks the emergence of the 10-tonne metal landmark from its longest closure since World War II.

It was shut down for more than three months during the first Covid-19 wave in the spring of last year, and then again in the autumn.

Online bookings will open on June 1.

The monument, completed in 1889, usually receives about seven million visitors every year, some three-quarters of them from abroad.