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In 1806 Napoleon asked the architect Chalgrin to construct a gigantic triumphal arch in honour of the French Army. The top of the Chaillot hill had to be levelled, and the foundations gave some difficulty, so that by the time the new Empress Marie-Louise arrived in 1810, the arch was only a few feet high. As the Emperor insisted that his bride must drive into Paris through this new gateway, Chalgrin had to get friends from the Theatres of Paris to construct a fake arch of wood and canvas for the occasion. When Napoleon was defeated and exiled in 1814, work stopped, not to be started again till Louis-Philippe ordered it in 1832. It was finished in 1836.

More than 200,000,000 people have visited the tower since its construction in 1889,[30] including 6,719,200 in 2006.[25] The tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world

Why don't you click on 'related links' below that will take you to the wikipedia page for the Eiffel Tower there you can read for yourself and answer all your questions.

Yes, the Eiffel Tower is 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building, whereas the Eureka Tower is only 300-metre (984 ft).

the great wall of china and the pyramids of Giza.

That certainly sounds like a sensible answer.

Eiffel Tower is one of the most celebrated landmarks in the world and represents Paris .The Eiffel Tower now generates its own power with new wind turbines. The turbines are expected to produce about 10,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year.

you know iam from Paris no lye i was born there and can speak fluent french. well just ask an attendent.

you know iam from Paris no lye i was born there and can speak fluent french. well just ask an attendent.

The Eiffel Tower is made of 9441 tons of steel. A total of 984 ft. ( 324 m) tall and has 18038 individual pieces. It is made of 4 base legs that are 80 meters apart from each other and are each 50 meters above the ground. It takes 50 tons of paint to paint the Eiffel tower. A total of 50 engineers made 5300 blueprints. 121 workers worked at the construction site to build it. There was only one fatality while building the Eiffel Tower

Gustave Eiffel was born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen in 1832 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, France. He passed away in 1923 in Paris. He spent most of his life in both Dijon and Paris.

It is highly variable depending on what time of day because sometimes there is a lot of traffic and they charge .10 euros every 40 seconds i went from Charles de Gaulle (CDG) to the Champs-Élysées and it ended up costing 257.40 euros and it is not usually a long trip there was just a ton of traffic

It is much more cheaper, reliable and faster to use public transportation (RER) straight from CDG airport down to Paris.

if there was RER from CDG it would faster and cheaper but there isn't

Yes, the Eiffel tower was built as a temporary structure to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The structure still stands today.

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The Education Code doesn't count days, but weeks; 36. According to where public holidays fall, this adds up to between 175 and 180 days a year.

In comparison, England has 190, Canada 194, Italy and Denmark 200; in the USA it depends on the State, but the average is 180.

In order for "faster" to make sense, you need an alternative. It is certainly faster to take a train from Paris to Barcelona than walking or taking a boat. Compared to flying, it is slower. Compared to the bus, it is somewhat faster, but it depends more on the speed of the train and directness of the bus.

16 minuts because of time change It takes about 8 hours elapsed time from Heathrow Airport, London, England, to Philadelphia International Airport, PA, USA. I used to live in Washington Crossing, Bucks County, and now I live about 20 miles from Heathrow Airport.

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About 18,6 mln of tourists visited Krakow in 2011.

The distance between the above places is 3677 miles. This distance is point to point straight distance as seen on the map. The actual distance covered by a flight may vary according to the flight path chosen. Also this is not the airport to airport distance.

By rail: 11h45 (with changes at Frankfurt and Nürnberg).

20 square kilometers, or about 4,940 acres.

This great square in the centre of Paris was originally designed by Gabriel to be a present from the people of Paris to King Louis XV, at that time known as Louis the Well-Beloved. He created a 21-acre octagon surrounded by a dry moat, with a statue of the King in the centre. At intervals around the moat were statues representing the chief towns of France, and the centre of the square was reached by four bridges. Amusingly, the squatters of Paris soon discovered that the pedestals of the statues were hollow, and they moved in, hanging out washing and growing vegetables in the moat. In 1770, however, the crowd in the square panicked during a firework display held to celebrate the wedding of the King's son. 133 people were crushed to death in the moat, which had to be filled in.

During the Reign of Terror the Square's name was changed from Place Louis XV to Place de la Révolution, and on Oct. 1792 the guillotine was set there. 1,119 people were beheaded there, including Louis XVI on Jan. 21, 1793. After that, the square was given its present name (Concord means Peace and Harmony), and the bridge across the river was built with stones taken from the demolished Bastille. In the reign of Louis-Philippe the square was completed by an architect named Hittorff, who added the fountains and brought from the ruined palace of Marly the statues at the entrances of the Tuileries gardens ('Winged Horses' by Coustou) and the Champs-Élysées ('Horse-tamers' by Coysevox). The Obelisk in the centre of the square was a gift to the people of France from Mohammed Ali, Pasha of Egypt. It is 3,300 years old and weighs 2,200 tons. Around the base of the obelisk, which came from the Temple of Luxor, are carvings representing the machines used to bring it to Paris and set it up (Cleopatra's needle, you may remember, was both broken and lost at sea on its way to London, so the French engineers had something to crow about).

The two vast buildings to the North of the square are part of Gabriel's original plan. The Western one, now the Hôtel Crillon, was originally palaces for several noblemen; the other, now the Navy Ministry, was the royal furniture store. The Kings, you see, had about fifty palaces and châteaux; rather than keep them all furnished all the time, they kept the furniture in a central store and sent it out as needed.

The height of the Eiffel Tower is 324 m.

The air distance from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Paris, France, is 7,450 miles. That equals 11,989 kilometers or 6,474 nautical miles.

There is no standard size of Taxi in Paris. Most can take 4 passengers, but some are minibuses with up to 12 seats.