The world is going green for Paddy’s Day.
Tourism Ireland has announced several new landmarks that will be going green as part of the organisations Global Greening for St. Patrick’s Day.
Paddy’s Day, which takes place on 17 March in case you never got the memo, is celebrated the world over — and this year Tourism Ireland is hoping that as many as 400 global landmarks. Last year, Global Greening boasted 290 locations and this year it has added many major locations to the list.
A statement published by Tourism Ireland earlier on Thursday read: “Victoria Falls, York’s medieval City Walls, the Eden Project in Cornwall, a leopard statue called ‘Chiu’ in Nairobi, Nation Towers in Abu Dhabi, the Château de Beaulieu on the banks of the Loire, the Atakule Tower in Ankara and the Shizuoka Stadium ECOPA in Japan, where Ireland will play Japan in the Rugby World Cup in September, will all join Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening initiative for the first time in 2019.
“Pari Roller – the world’s biggest rollerskating event, which takes place every Friday night in Paris – is also set to go green. Hundreds of rollerskaters gliding through the streets of the French capital will stop at the Palais de Chaillot, where they’ll carry bright green glow sticks to celebrate our national day.”
These new venues join other universally-known spots such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Niagara Falls, the ‘Welcome’ sign in Las Vegas, Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland Paris, the Sydney Opera House, Burj al Arab, Cristo Redentor in Rio di Janeiro, the London Eye and many others.
Other new sites and buildings taking part in Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening 2019 include: The Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone – where freed slaves gathered on their return to Africa after the abolition of slavery; the historic Cutty Sark sailing ship in Greenwich; the Beatus Rhenanus bridge over the Rhine – a symbolic bridge between France and Germany which links the city of Strasbourg and the town of Kehl; and ‘Niki’, a Cathay Pacific DC-3 airplane on display in the Cathay Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
No word on the moon yet, though.
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