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Sunday 31 March 2013

: tHrEe interesting places in PARIS :

Eiffil Tower


Height : 324 m
Contruction started : January 28 1887
floors: 3

The Eiffil Tower is a puddleiron lattice tower located on the champde Mars in Paris. Built in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World'd Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The towers is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world:millions of people ascend it every year. It is named after the engineer Gustava Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

sources : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel Tower

Bastille





The bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of france and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. It was stormed on 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution, becoming an important symbol for the French Republican movement, and was later completely demolished and built over by the place de la Bastille, with the few remaining relics being placed on the nearby boulevard Henri IV.

L'Arc de Triomphe



The  Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charled de Gaulle, at the western end of the Champs-Elysees. There is a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Lourve. The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the Frencg Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.






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