Eiffel Tower - 120 Years Old Today

Happy 120th Birthday Old Lady !


Eiffel Tower's Official Site
The story of the Iron Lady
(Wikipedia)


(by cumbas)

A LightShow will take place four times a day from October 22nd/2009
until the end of the year.

Built in 1889 for the Exposition Universelle, a World's Fair marking
the centennial celebration of the French Revolution, the Eiffel tower
is listed since 1989 as nbr 15 by the World Federation of Great Towers.
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(Have a look at the Eiffel Tower Cam site).

From G@tto's Paris Album...

Just 3 pics from a walk around the Branly Museum...


Square Rapp, on avenue... Rapp (from my Flickr).


Detail of the Art Nouveau building on the left side of the square.
(Jules Lavirotte,1899).


and the Iron Lady, of course...
the Eiffel Tower.
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Our Planet is Talking...

The day before French people pacifically take over the Bastille...
... greenpeace assaulted the Eiffel tower :

"Since coming into power in May 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy
has been aggressively promoting nuclear energy, and attempting
to sell French reactors at every turn.
His government has signed agreements on nuclear exports and
cooperation with nine Mediterranean and Middle East countries in
the last year". (...)