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The gigantic Cratère de Vix - at 1.64 meters high, the largest bronze vessel of all antiquity, c. 500 BC The Seine in Paris during the World Expo in 1937 The Seine and Eiffel Tower. The name Seine comes from Gaullish Sēquana, from the Celtic Gallo-Roman goddess of the river, as
However the tallest tower is built within central Paris: the iconic Eiffel Tower standing alongside the Seine River at the heart of the 7th arrondissement. Built in 1889, it was the first man-made structure in the world to exceed 1,000 feet.
The Eiffel Tower (/ ˈ aɪ f əl / ⓘ 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.
The Tsar accepted, and Blücher could not then destroy a bridge inaugurated by an Ally. The name of the bridge was reverted to its original name under Louis-Philippe at Talleyrand's instigation. [1] The Pont d'Iéna at night. The structure was designed with five arches, each with an arc length of 28 m, and four intermediate piers. The initial ...
The final design called for 18,000 pieces of puddle iron and an incredible 2.5 million rivets. Admittedly, that sounds a lot more difficult than the 3D Eiffel Tower puzzle we had as kids.. 4. The ...
Location on the Seine in Paris.. The Pont Alexandre III (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ tʁwa]) is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris.It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower.
The Pont des Arts (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ dez‿aʁ]) or Passerelle des Arts ([pasʁɛl-]) is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine.It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire).
This page is a list of present-day bridges over the River Seine and its channels, sorted by département, and then sorted from downstream to upstream.After each bridge is listed the name of the communes which it links together, with the one on the right bank of the river given first.