Eiffel Tower, Sagrada Família Go Dark for Earth Hour
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- Eiffel Tower and Sagrada Família switched off their lights for one hour at 20:30 local time on Saturday 28 March 2026 to mark Earth Hour, according to BBC video journalist Emaan Warraich.
- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organizes the annual Earth Hour event, which the BBC describes as a global effort to raise environmental awareness.
- Earth Hour asks individuals to turn off their lights for 60 minutes and first launched in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, before expanding worldwide.
- The BBC characterizes the participation as "global landmarks," indicating that sites beyond the two named in the article also took part in the synchronized blackout.
Why it matters: Earth Hour, which began as a single-city event in Sydney in 2007, has grown into a coordinated WWF-backed international ritual; the 2026 edition on 28 March saw the Eiffel Tower and Sagrada Família go dark at 20:30 local time, lending a visible global symbol to the campaign's 60-minute energy-savings ask.
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