The Eiffel Tower becomes a playground: until June 2, you can launch yourself from the tower via rope flight

From May 29 to June 2, on the occasion of the Roland Garros tennis tournament, it will be possible in Paris to jump from the Eiffel Tower: on the famous French monument designed by Gustave Eiffel and inaugurated in 1889, a rope flight (or “angel flight”) has in fact been installed that allows anyone who wants to do so to jump from a height of 115 meters to “fly” while seeing the city from above. The rope route is about 800 meters long, goes all the way to the Champ-de-Mars, lasts about a minute, and allows for peaks of 100 kilometers per hour. The operation was sponsored by Perrier water, which renamed it Smash, after the well-known tennis shot.

The rope was installed on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, and it is not unprecedented: the angel’s flight had already been brought to the monument at Roland Garros in 2017. Since, as one can easily imagine, the organizers anticipated a very high number of requests to launch from the Eiffel Tower, in order to be able to “fly,” the only possible way is to make a reservation on Perrier’s website, hoping to find a place.

It is the case to say that those who fear a transformation of historic centers and monuments into playgrounds will now have one more argument.

The Eiffel Tower becomes a playground: until June 2, you can launch yourself from the tower via rope flight

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