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2. Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia

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   The Eiffel Tower (/ ˈaɪfəl / ⓘ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ⓘ) 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 from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed " La dame de fer " (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed ...

3. Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station - Wikipedia

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   Champ de MarsTour Eiffel. Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station is a station on RER C in Paris named for the nearby Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel). The site has accommodated a total of five stations. The station was originally built to receive goods necessary for the construction of the pavilions for the Exposition ...

4. Jardins du Trocadéro - Wikipedia

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   Jardins du Trocadéro (Gardens of the Trocadero) is an open space in Paris, the capital of France, located in the 16th Arrondissement; bounded to the northwest by the wings of the Palais de Chaillot and to the southeast by the Seine and the Pont d'Iéna at the Place de Varsovie, with the Eiffel Tower on the opposite bank of the Seine.

5. Headed to Paris? 20 things to do outside of the Olympic Games

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   Eiffel Tower Landmarks Around Paris Ahead Of The Summer Olympics (Chesnot / Getty Images) Everyone knows about the Eiffel Tower — but in order to visit the monument, there are a few important ...

6. Photos show how the Olympics affected tourism in Paris

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   Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. ... One at the foot of the Eiffel Tower — on the other side from the stadium — was expected to get 13,000 spectators a day. ... with 500,000 tickets still ...

7. Eiffel family leads campaign to remove Olympic rings from ...

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   Eiffel Tower designer’s family to fight plan to keep Olympic rings. 01:06. PARIS — There are few sights more iconic than the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings. But not everyone agrees they ...

8. Exposition Universelle (1889) - Wikipedia

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   The Exposition Universelle of 1889 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fifth of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. [a] It attracted more than thirty-two million ...

9. Olympians take to the Seine for a first-of-its-kind floating ...

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   The organizers of Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games hope to provide relief, positivity and unity in a world increasingly beset with tension.