{"id":30698,"date":"2025-07-01T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30698\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:58:08","slug":"top-of-eiffel-tower-closed-due-to-extreme-heat-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30698\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of Eiffel Tower closed due to extreme heat \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temperatures in Paris are expected to reach 36 degrees Celsius this week, with parts of southern France soaring to 40 degrees. The French government has issued high-level heat wave alerts across 84 areas.<\/p>\n

Completed in 1889 for the World\u2019s Fair in Paris, the Eiffel Tower was originally intended as a temporary structure. But it quickly became a national symbol, and is now one of the most visited monuments in the world.<\/p>\n

On Monday, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen criticized<\/a> the government\u2019s handling of the crisis, calling for \u201ca major air conditioning equipment plan\u201d and claiming ordinary citizens are left to endure the heat while \u201cso-called French elites\u201d remain in climate-controlled environments.<\/p>\n

The weather has also impacted other European landmarks. In Belgium, the Atomium in Brussels has reduced its visiting hours<\/a> because of the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures in Paris are expected to reach 36 degrees Celsius this week, with parts of southern France soaring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[111,17749,115,156,8706,5370,2851,50,8152,527,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-30698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-politics","13":"tag-heat-wave","14":"tag-marine-le-pen","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-safety","17":"tag-water","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114779750657602641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}