Eiffel Tower Celebrates 120 Years
One hundred twenty years after its completion, the Eiffel Tower is a getting a facelift — a paint job that will take 18 months to outfit the monument from tip to toe in a new coat of coppery brown. Twenty-five painters are on the job to cover 250,000 square metres of metal of monument. The 324-metre-high tower receives more than six million visitors per year.
The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's great symbols of modernity, seen from the Trocadero in Paris. It was inaugurated on March 31, 1889.
French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), left, poses high on the steps of the completed Eiffel Tower, which he designed for the 1889 Paris Exposition. Right: Some of Eiffel's designs.
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- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 6 months agoMore than a thousand balloons released to mark the Eiffel Tower's 120th birthday have dotted the Paris sky and turned the heads of tourists waiting to visit the monument. The most instantly recognizable symbol of Paris was inaugurated May 19, 1889.
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- Blog Source: travelandtrips.wordpress.comThe Eiffel Tower celebrates its 120th birthday this year, and Paris is honouring its creator Gustave Eiffel with this exhibition about the man who not only gave the country its most recognisable symbol but also was behind numerous ... From 15th May
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