CLASSIC ATTRACTIONS
The incredible Versailles Palace has been given a new feature — to celebrate 300 years since the death of the palace’s founder, Sun King Louis XIV.
It recently inaugurated the newly renovated Water Theatre grove — fittingly, to great fanfare.
It’s an incredible contemporary fountain with gilded sculptures composed of 2,000 pearls and 20,000 pieces of gold leaf. It’s fit for a king, even though the king is dead.
And what would a trip to Paris be like without a visit to the new-look Eiffel Tower? The 324-metre monument was given a vertigo-inducing face-lift last year as organisers celebrated its 125th anniversary — and now has see-through glass floor panels on its first level.
The four small viewing sections, which cost €30 million (1.1 billion baht), allow visitors to see 57 metres below their feet.