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Eiffel Tower - Tour Eiffel, Paris - 0 views

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eiffel tower paris france history

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  • best approach to the tower is to take the Métro to the Trocadéro station
  • he Eiffel Tower at night is one of the great sights of Paris and shouldn't be missed
  • 300 steel workers, and 2 years (1887-1889) to construct it.
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  • More than 500 people bring the Eiffel Tower to life each day
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The Eiffel Tower tourist attraction in Paris France - 0 views

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eiffel tower paris france tourism

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  • global icon of France,
  • one of the most recognised structures in the world and is the tallest structure in Paris, and with 200,000,000 having visited the Eiffel Tower
  • most visited paid monument per year.
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  • 1887 and 1889
  • 6 tons of paint
  • Did you know that the Eiffel Tower was to be demolished in 20 years after construction?
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Eiffel tower history - 0 views

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history eiffel tower paris france

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  • built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution
  • 700 proposals submitted in a design
  • Gustave Eiffel's was unanimously chosen
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  • ot accepted by all at first
  • Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the Younger - protested its construction.
  • world's tallest building until 1930
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    "built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution"
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    history of the eiffel tower.
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