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The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, /'tuR E'fEl/) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. It is the tallest structure in Paris and possibly the most recognized monument in the world^. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is the most visited monument in the world; 6,428,441 people visited the tower in 2005^ and more than 200,000,000 since its construction ^. Including the 24 m (78.7 ft) antenna, the structure is 324 m (1063 ft) high (since 2000) which is about 81 stories. In 1902, it was struck by lightning, which caused builders to reconstruct 300 feet of the top. The lights illuminating the tower also had to be replaced since they were damaged by the high energy of the lightning.

Landmarks

• Eiffel Tower. The symbol of Paris and one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Built by Gustave Eiffel in 1887-1889, the tower was almost torn down in 1909 and only saved due to its use as a telegraphy antenna. A "must see" if you go to Paris. Queues can be very long, however. From dusk till 2 am there is a light show for ten minutes on every hour. Note: entry to the Eiffel Tower is on a "first come, first served" basis; the tower does not offer advance tickets or accept reservations.

• the Assemblée Nationale , 33 quai d'Orsay, open Mo, Fr, Sa 8.40 am - 11.40 am and 2 pm - 5 pm, guided tours conducted all day, ID required, tel 01 40 63 60 00 - formerely the Palais Bourbon, this building has housed the National Assembly, the French parliament's lower house, since 1827. Some interesting architecture and the library features the painting by Delacroix. Visitors may be interested in attending assembly debates.

• Les Invalides , - founded in 1671 by Louis XIV as a hospital for 6000 war-wounded soldiers - this function explaining the name of the building - the golden-domed Hôtel des Invalides still functions as an infirmary and now also houses the (see below). The church attached, , houses the tomb of Napoleon.

Museums and Galleries

• Musée d'Orsay, , 1 rue de la Légion d'Honneur / rue de Lille (located on the Left Bank of the Seine, adjacent to the Pont Solferino and Pont Royal - opposite the Jardin des Tuileries in the ), (ligne 12), (lignes 8, 13), RER C , bus 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, 94, open Tu-Sa 10 am - 6 pm (June - September, from 9am), Th 10 am - 9.45pm, Su 9 am - 6 pm; closed Mondays, Christmas, New Years and May Days, entry €7, concessions €5, under-18s free - housed in a former railway station (completed in 1900 for the , later saved from demolition and converted to its present use), the rambling, open-plan museum is home to the works of the great artists of the 19th century (1848-1914) - Impressionists, post-Impressionists, and the rest - that were formerly displayed in the Louvre. This is perhaps the most spectacular collection of European impressionism in the world-- breath-taking rooms full of Manet, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, and many others. Impressionist represent the biggest draw, but there is much else to explore.
• Musée du quai Branly, , 37 quai Branly. Opened in 2006, this is the newest and the most modern of Paris' great museums, housing an outstanding collection of tribal art, with a particular emphasis on France's former (and present) territories in Oceania and Africa. The museum is and you can easily spend half a day wandering out, especially if you pause to explore the multimedia presentations. Open Tue-Sun 10 AM -6 PM (Thu -9 PM). Admission 8.50€, concessions 6€ .
• Musée Rodin , 77 Rue de Varenne. +33 1 44 18 61 10, fax: +33 1 44 18 61 30. Closed Mondays. A museum dedicated to the life and work of the great sculptor. Admission 5€, concessions 3€, garden only 1€, visitors under 18 free. The house contains an extensive collection, which is unusually well presented in a spacious building with big windows that are open in nice weather, which makes this museum double pleasant.
• Musée de l'Armée - found within Les Invalides

Other attractions

• Les Egouts de Paris / Paris Sewers, entrance opposite 93 quai d'Orsay near the Pont d'Alma, -

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Eiffel Tower
Made by m|s
View Large The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, nickname La dame de fer, the iron lady) is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named for its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair. The tower stands 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. Upon its completion, it surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930; however, due to the addition in 1957 of the antenna, the tower is now taller than the Chrysler Building. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France after the 2004 Millau Viaduct. The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend, by stairs or lift, to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by elevator. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants. The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city - Eiffel Tower, Wikipedia


The Eiffel Tower Lit Up
Made by Jim Boud
This shot is a 30-second exposure taken at about midnight in Paris. Not much post processing applied here. From Wikipedia: The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl]) is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris,[10] is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair. The tower stands 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world from its completion until 1930, when it was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building in New York City. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France, behind the Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004. The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend either on stair or lift to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants. The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.


La Tour Eiffel
Made by _Robert C_
My wide angle Sigma 10-20 lens gives an interesting perspective to this great structure. The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, /tuʀ ɛfɛl/) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. It is one of the tallest structures in Paris and possibly one of the most recognized monuments in the world. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is the most visited monument in the world; 6,428,441 people visited the tower in 2005 and more than 200,000,000 since its construction. Including the 24 m (78.7 ft) antenna, the structure is 324 m (1,063 ft) high (since 2000), which is equivalent to about 81 levels in a conventional building. In 1902, it was struck by lightning, which meant that 100 metres of the top had to be reconstructed and the lights illuminating the tower had to be replaced, as they were damaged by the high energy of the lightning. The structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons. There are 1,665 steps (360 to the first level, another 359 to the second). It is not possible for the public to reach the summit via the stairs, lifts are required beyond the second platform. Lift tickets may be purchased at the base or either platform. Depending on the ambient temperature, the top of the tower may shift away from the sun by up to 18cm, due to thermal expansion of the metal on the side facing the sun. The tower also sways 6-7cm in the wind.


Eiffel au début du siècle
Made by Düss
The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], nickname La dame de fer, the iron woman) is an 1889 iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris,[10] is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair. The tower stands 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world from its completion until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France after the 2004 Millau Viaduct. The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants. The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city. (by Wikipedia)


Eiffel Tower GigaPixelized!! (Paris) (Zoom Inside)
Made by Anirudh Koul
Sorry Eiffel Tower, I had to Giga Pixelize you. A gigapixel is 1 billion pixels! or 1000 Mega pixels. To put it in context, most cameras in the market are around 8 Mega pixels. Open the image here and zoom in : Eiffel Tower GigaPixelized How it was made: The image was constructed with about 230 zoomed-in photographs with overlapping portions . To prevent differences in shade, colour and focusing, the shutter speed, aperture, focus, ISO and White balance were kept fixed in manual mode. After an unsuccessful at stitching in GIMP, the photos were combined using gigapan sticher. Their site shows photos in flash, so easily zoomable. Although my hotel was 900 meters from the Eiffel tower, I couldn't manage to go up in my 7 day visit. After reaching Paris, I caught a bad flu. The American medicines were no match for the artillery of French bacteria. So in the 7 day period, the only real tourism I did was a 2 hour bus ride. (Resting in bed most of the time). These photos were taken while waiting for the Hop-on-Hop-Off bus.


Eiffel vs. The Sky
Made by Toni Blay
Pioneer of aerodynamics (little eiffel, little eiffel) they thought he was real smart Alec (little eiffel, little eiffel) he thought big they called it a phallic (little eiffel, little eiffel) they didn't know he was panoramic little eiffel stands in the archway (little eiffel, little eiffel) keeping low doesn't make no sense sometimes people can be oh so dense they didn't want it but he built it anyway Lyrics from the song Alec Eiffel by the Pixies Tour Eiffel, near sunset with amazing sky evening, trying to find a hole and reach outter space. Must be viewed Torre Eiffel, cerca de la puesta de sol con una tarde de cielo espectacular, intentando encontrar un hueco para salir al espacio exterior. Deberías verla en GRANDE! This is also the first pic that I upload taken with my brand new Canon 30D :D


Rita Crane Photography: France / Paris / Eiffel Tower / sunset / / Eiffel Tower Silhouette, Paris
Made by Rita Crane Photography ~ returning slowly
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/#!/ritacranephoto Photo of the Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel) taken in winter, at sunset. Photo prise en hiver, au coucher du soleil. It's hard to imagine how HUGE this structure is. No wonder half of Paris was ready to clobber Eiffel for designing it and getting the city to approve having it plunked down next to the Seine for the World's Fair 1898. One never knows what people will fall in love with though! :-) Having won the hearts of millions around the world it is now the symbol of the planet's most visited city. And it is very very awesome to stand next to it. Thanks Monsieur Eiffel! See another view, taken by another Flickr friend, that is sepia toned, viewed from UNDERNEATH (looks like a mandala) here:


Blue Eiffel Tower
Made by looking4poetry
tonight (30th of June), France was taking on the EU presidency. To celebrate the French Presidency, The eiffel tower had been decorated with the stars composing the EU flag and was enlightened in blue. Though the horizon is not plain blue for Nicolas Sarkozy. The French President will actually have many troubles to cope with during his presidency ; the first one being the settlement of the institutional crisis concerning the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty which had just been refused by Ireland. Update : on 1st of July, Poland announces that following the Irish refusal, it will refuse the Lisbon treaty (despite having already ratified it by the parliament way)...



Made by ، Zmzm
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People or Ants?
Made by boliston
An 50 ISO film is probably not ideal for this type of shot as it's best when there is loads of light, and even though it was sunny, there was not quite so much light under the Eiffel Tower. I'm not sure how their queueing arrangements work but these ant like people were waiting for the lift, whereas I simply climbed the stairs which meant there was no queue at all. Level one is still pretty high and well above the hight of the surrounding buildings. It's 189 feet from the ground or 58 metres. Scanned as a slide using Epson Iscan for Ubuntu Linux on the Epson 4490, then inverted in Gimp to form a positive image.


226/366 As night fell over Paris...
Made by Janey Kay
On Black ... I was on the 59th floor of the Tour Montparnasse 210m above the ground. Explored on August 13th ... thanks guys and gals! For anyone who loves Paris, take a look here ... this image appeared at the bottom of my home page today and I'm so glad it did .... the Eiffel Tower when she was first built .... this really shows the vision of Gustav Eiffel at the time of her construction! ========================


~ sunset over La Défense ~
Made by Janey Kay
A bit of a difficult test for a new camera which arrived on Thursday evening. I don't think this photo will stand up technically and in details. It's been processed with Nik Color Efex Graduated Neutral Density Filter and HDR Efex. It's set on the panorama aspect ratio. I'm not sure night photos are the best thing for this camera ... let's see! I'll be doing lots of tests this weekend :) ==== Oh ... front page explore at midnight :-) Merci beaucoup and thanks a lot for all your vists! Position #10


Sunset in the city
Made by Toni Blay
This town goes down at sunset When the hills start turning red The streets roll up at eight o'clock Everybody goes off to bed There's someone callin' someone names You can hear a screen door slam A car goes skatin' down the road Everybody gets out of bed Lyrics from the song This town goes down at sunset by The Beach Boys Too beautiful to be real. Look through the telescope if you are looking for reality. Taken from the viewpoint of the second floor, Eiffel Tower, Paris. 12mm wide angle.


Eiffel Tower at dusk
Made by Janey Kay
View On Black *************************************************************** *************************************************************** [Repost] *** Madame was 120 years old yesterday, 31st March! *** I heard this morning on the news that she's going to get another coat of paint - her 19th since her creation in 1889. It will take 18 months, 25 painters and 60 tonnes of paint!


The View Finder:)
Made by Faisal!
Hi everybody! Hope you are having a great sunday. I will try to make a series of 5 images with odd pov´s. (is this odd,??!! dont know) Hope you like my first one. This one is from Eiffel tower. I read today in Sydney daily herald (net) that Montparnasse is one of the uggliest building in a beautiful city??:) Dont know if I agree to that. Paris is beautiful with all its central building. Sorry couldnt preserve EXIF while processing f 2.8 - 1/2000 ISO100


My lucky star [Eiffel tower]
Made by ℰloy ℛICARDEZ ℒUNA
and if everyone was a star? add yourself in the picture ! - 264 photos in stack whit startrail. Starmax works also, both for PC. - 30 each shot - Taked in august 21, 2010 - start at 2:18 - finish at 5:20 - Location : Champs de Mars - Paris, France. I saw two others shooting star's the same night, butt off the frame ;-) Thanks for you faves, notes or comments (in any language), I appreciate. 10mm 3 hours of exposure 100ISO no flash


Les touristes
Made by Paolo Pizzimenti
Visit Paolo page at Aaomora Blog and contribute with your works - Visitate la pagina di Paolo su Aamora e contribuite con i vostri lavori - Visitez la page de Paolo sur Aamora blog et contribuez vous avec vos oeuvres Paolo's Re- styled Blog - Visitez-il Visitatelo - Visit it


City Of Blinding Lights
Made by J u r j e n. (catching up)
During my visit in Paris we ofcourse went on top of the Eiffel Tower and it is so high! But we went during sunset and waited untill it went dark which delivired me some nice shots which I will upload in the coming period. So much to tell, so much to see. I think you just should enjoy the shot. Frontpage on 9th May, 2010 Overview On Black!


infrapink....(neologism)... :-)))))
Made by *bratan*
Dear friends, If one day you see such colours in the nature, go immediately to the doctor! LOL Hope you have a great week :-) note : some girls here have ruined my so pinky art today, and I am very thankfull for that. Maybe I can advice you to see this one with special sunglasses (looks better and it is better for your health too)....LOL Anyway we invented a new word today :-)))))))))))))))))))


Armstrong's Ladder?
Made by nanda_uforians
Before you wonder how ... let me tell you this has been photoshopped ..and quite poorly too i guess ! :) am not good at it .. but still wanted to try fhis for quite some time ever since i read Scot Kelby's Book ... and found the following tutorial ... www.kelbytraining.com/books/vol1gear_moontut/index.html