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Paris (AFP) – After the Eiffel Tower, it is the turn of the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles to go dark earlier, in a “symbolic” measure to make the population aware of the energy crisis in France, the Minister of Culture declared this Saturday Rima Abdul Malak.
“Starting tonight” on Saturday, the Louvre pyramid will be turned off at 11:00 p.m. instead of 1:00 a.m., the minister told France 2 channel, after similar measures taken by the Paris mayor’s office, which decided this week to interrupt earlier the lighting of the Eiffel Tower and that of the town hall.
“We are going to turn off the lighting on the facade of the Palace of Versailles at 10:00 p.m. instead of 11:00 p.m. next week,” he added.
“The symbols are important to sensitize the population,” the minister estimated, although she admitted that “these symbolic measures” are not enough.
Rima Abdul Malak called for concrete actions of ecological transition in museums, cinemas, theaters and “all the cultural places in France”.
Paris shuts down emblematic buildings due to energy crisis
The mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, announced this week that the Paris City Hall, the Eiffel Tower, the Santiago Tower, the municipal museums and the district town halls will no longer be illuminated at night from September 23 to root of the energy crisis.
In addition, Hidalgo explained that the heating temperature in municipal buildings will be reduced from 19 to 18 ºC during the day and 12 ºC at night and on weekends, when the buildings are “unoccupied.”
The objective of “this emergency plan” is “to lower consumption by another 10%” in the city, the equivalent of “energy consumption in 226 schools,” said the former socialist presidential candidate.
Energy prices, especially gas, exploded in recent months in a context of war in Ukraine.
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