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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor all who know and love her, it's her birthday today...126 glorious years!
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GOOGLE DOODLE IN FRANCE TODAY, MARCH 31:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
What a grand dame she is, too.
Construction started 28 January 1887
Completed 15 March 1889
Opening 31 March 1889
Owner City of Paris, France
Yes, in French she is a real lady, La Tour Eiffel
haikugal
(6,476 posts)I share a birthday with la tour Eiffel, that's wonderful! Thanks, and happy birthday to us both. So beautiful!!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)Like our beauty and I thank you
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)would never have caught their breath at the sight of her thrusting proudly into the Paris skies?
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Went to the top. Once just took the stairs to the first deck. The other time took elevator to the top.
Very cool. Glad they didn't get rid of it.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)attachment to their buildings and monuments.
They would never pull anything down just to make way for a new parking lot or mall.
When the Pompidou Center appeared back in the 70s, there was an outraged reaction from the 'intelligentsia': ugly, eyesore, hideous.
Similar to the early rejection of the Eiffel Tower.
Now, 30+ years later, the Pompidou is a another beloved icon on the Paris horizon.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)You are a lovely and beautiful icon known around the world. Wear well dear one.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)Imagine all the stories she could tell. From intercepting enemy radio communications during WWI to hitler ordering her demolition during WWII to everything in between.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)to tell the tale, if only she could!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)born nearly 70 years later:
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)in Vegas, but where is this?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It's definitely real-- I've even been in it before.
Here's its English-language web site:
http://www.tokyotower.co.jp/eng/
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I have a great niece living within seeing distance of there now. Beautiful girl with fiery red hair that is almost iridescence
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)here on a (safety-secured) plane! It's high-time for a visit.
You don't have to worry about accommodation and the mighty $ is the best it's been against the since its inception.
If you ever make it, madokie, PM me and I'll pass along my 'coordinates', as the French say.
You being one of my favorite DUers, it would be fun to hook up.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I haven't been out of the state more than a few times in the last 45 years, twice to Texas, twice to Arkansas and once to Kansas, so making a trip like this would be impossible for me.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Eiffel Tower - 3D Virtual Tour
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen/fullscreen32.html
Visite Virtuelle de la Tour Eiffel (superb, this one!)
Virtual Tour : Eiffel Tower
http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-VirtualTour.php?3D=Paris-France
Paris, France 360° Aerial Panorama
Enjoy!
madokie
(51,076 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Best talking parrot in the world! Clover knows 350+ words (with subtitles)
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Vaut le voyage, comme on dit. Much more impressive in person and it never gets old.
Also, I went to the American College in Paris, as it was called back then, The library is on Rue de Montessuy and you can see the Tower as you walk up the street with classic Parisian buildings in the foreground. Was I spoiled. I can also confirm there are worse places to hang out with a pretty girl than the Champs de Mars.
Thanks for the memories, Surya. It has its warts, but Paris is mankind's finest attempt to promote beauty as a path to human happiness here on earth.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)after my own heart here:
'It has its warts, but Paris is mankind's finest attempt to promote beauty as a path to human happiness here on earth.'
Came 30+ years ago and couldn't pull myself away. There's just something about her--she burrows into your heart and stays there.
Sans le moindre doute, elle vaut largement le detour ! (Without a doubt, she's more than worth the trip!)
When I first came, I lived in a 'maid's room' and worked as an 'au pair' (mother's helper)--just a crow's flight from the Champs de Mars. I used to take my charges to play in the gardens there.
I could see the beautiful grand dame from my 'was-ist-das' or transom window, up under the mansard roof.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Like any great architectural work or beautiful woman, she has so many moods, colors, facets...
niyad
(113,552 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)No matter where you are in Paris, the Eiffel Tower looms. She is a magnificent architectural masterpiece, and it was a dream come true to be there and ascend to her peak. Afterwards, we found a cafe about a block away that didn't disappoint. Now I want to go back!!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)would love to see you again! Come back any time!