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A view of the Eiffel Tower at Trocadero during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024. ... black, and red— on the top and two rings—yellow and green—on the bottom ...
The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, a distinction it retained until 1929 when the Chrysler Building in New York City was topped out. [102] The tower also lost its standing as the world's tallest tower to the Tokyo Tower in 1958 but retains its status as the tallest freestanding (non-guyed) structure in France.
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Eiffel Tower Stadium during the 2024 Olympics. Champ de Mars contains both a basketball court and a football field. For the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics , a temporary stadium known as the Eiffel Tower Stadium ( French : Stade de la Tour Eiffel ) was erected atop the Place Jacques-Rueff, and hosted the ...
A bamboo replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Jaro Plaza in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines, was constructed to commemorate the inauguration of the original Eiffel Tower during the 1889 Paris Exposition 10°43′29.0172″N 122°33′24.6168″E / 10.724727000°N 122.556838000°E / 10.724727000; 122.556838000
Here’s some background information about the Eiffel Tower in Paris.. Facts. Almost seven million people visit the Eiffel Tower annually.. About 300 million visitors have been to the tower since ...
In the 1998 film Ronin, the spy team meets some arms dealers under the bridge on the Right Bank. In the 2004 film A Very Long Engagement, Marion Cotillard's character kills the character played by François Levantal under the bridge. In the 2005 film Angel-A it is the Pont Alexandre III from which Angela and André jump into the Seine.
The multicolored logo adorned the Eiffel Tower during the Paris 2024 Games, just as they had hung from London’s Tower Bridge in 2012 and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2000.
Bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot (300-meter) tower of open-lattice wrought iron was selected in a competition to erect a memorial at the exposition. Twice as high as the dome of St. Peter's in Rome or the Great Pyramid of Giza, nothing like it had ever been built before. This view was made about four months short of the tower's completion.