The Eiffel Tower (French: tour Eiffel) is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris.
2011 | Picture ID: 19122011-1
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Constructed from 1887–89 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world.
2011 | Picture ID: 19122011-2
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The Seine (French: La Seine) is a 777 kilometre long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre.
2011 | Picture ID: 10122011
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Pont d'Iéna is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank to the district of Trocadéro on the Right Bank.
2010 | Picture ID: 16112010
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Le Château d'eau de Montmartre à Paris.
Water Tower and Bus Station.
2011 | Picture ID: 09052011
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Street Café in Paris. La Tour Eiffel.
2010 | Picture ID: 29042010
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Port de Suffren (Seine)
2010 | Picture ID: 15042010
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Yellow Car in Montmartre/Paris.
2010 | Picture ID: 09042010
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The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world.
2010 | Picture ID: 06042010
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Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement. It is 130 m high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank in the northern section of the city.
2010 | Picture ID: 20042010
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