Here are our favorite little-known facts about the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower almost went by a different name. When Gustave Eiffel was working on the project in 1885, he initially named the ...

Barely an hour’s flight from London, and with a population of over two million, Paris holds a remarkable amount of amazing and awe-inspiring facts for ... The Eiffel Tower isn’t supposed ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The world-famous Eiffel Tower, originally constructed in 1889 and standing 330m tall, was only originally intended ...

Disney California Adventure will update the Eiffel Tower scene in Soarin’ Around the World in the coming weeks, according to ...

But nobody in the States had an answer for the Eiffel Tower. Oh, there were proposals: a tower garlanded with rails to distant cities, enabling visitors to toboggan home; another tower from whose ...

French engineer and entrepreneur Gustave Eiffel will forever be remembered for building the much-loved tower that has dominated the Paris skyline for over a century. But the father of the Eiffel ...

Take the Eiffel Tower: its singular spire has been reproduced on countless postcards and T-shirts, making it instantly recognizable even for those who have never set foot in Paris. Whether ...

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