Roue de Paris
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The Roue de Paris is a Template:Convert tall<ref name="RDPtechnical">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="bbc200311">BBC - Birmingham Features - Birmingham Wheel</ref> transportable Ferris wheel, originally installed on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, for the 2000 millennium celebrations. It left Paris in 2002 and has since then seen service at numerous other locations around the world.
It is a Ronald Bussink series R60 wheel and needs no permanent foundations, instead Template:Convert (40 tonnes) of water ballast provide a stable base.<ref name="bbc200311"/> It weighs 365 tonnes.<ref name="RDPtechnical"/>
Due to its transportable design, it can be erected in 72 hours and dismantled in 60 hours by a specialist team. Transport requires seven Template:Convert container lorries, ten open trailer lorries, and one closed trailer lorry.
The forty-two gondolas can be loaded either three or six at a time, and each can accommodate eight passengers.<ref name="RDPtechnical" />
Installations
- 2000–02: Place de la Concorde, Paris, France. (Template:Coord).<ref name="bbc">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Tout le monde s'explique: Marcel Campion est l'invité de Thierry Ardisson. INA (in French). 19 January 2002</ref><ref>Paris : en 20 ans, la grande roue est (presque) devenue un monument. Le Parisien (in French). 15 February 2014</ref>
- 2003–04: following its initial installation in France, the Roue de Paris was moved to Birmingham, England, where it was known as the Wheel of Birmingham.<ref name="bbc"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For Christmas 2004, it was moved to Exchange Square, Manchester, where it was known as the Wheel of Manchester.<ref name="rouedeparis"/>
- 2005: first the wheel went to the Netherlands, making a short visit to the World Town Fair in Geleen, followed by ten days at the Museumplein (Museum Square) in Amsterdam. It then went to Gateshead, England for the Tall Ships Race and stayed there until the end of September.<ref name="rouedeparis">Template:Cite web</ref>
- 2006–07: the wheel was installed at the Suan Lum Night Bazaar in Bangkok, Thailand, and operated there until it was dismantled and removed in 2007.<ref name="rouedeparis"/>
- 2008: Antwerp, Belgium.Template:Citation needed
- 2013: Rimini, Italy.Template:Citation needed
- 2015: Ghent, Belgium, During Christmas and new year.
- 2016: Ghent, Belgium, During Christmas and new year.
- 2022: Cologne, Germany, March through June
- 2023: Paris, France, summer