The Eiffel Tower built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution ... was well worth the visit... it was way more impressive than i had expected ...i am sure it was not the 15,000 iron pieces, or the 2.5 million rivets, or the 40 tons of paint, or the 1652 steps to the top but rather i have seen it in movies, paintings, read about it in books and poems, and it is featured and seems so connected to paris that it would not have seemed like we were ever in paris without a visit here...Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution ... was well worth the visit... it was way more impressive than i had expected ...i am sure it was not the 15,000 iron pieces, or the 2.5 million rivets, or the 40 tons of paint, or the 1652 steps to the top but rather i have seen it in movies, paintings, read about it in books and poems, and it is featured and seems so connected to paris that it would not have seemed like we were ever in paris without a visit here...
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Did you guys go up to the top?
ReplyDeleteSome history on the Eiffel Tower:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
I always thought this was funny:
"Novelist Guy de Maupassant—who claimed to hate the tower—supposedly ate lunch in the Tower's restaurant every day. When asked why, he answered that it was the one place in Paris where one could not see the structure."