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Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower
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About Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.

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In 1948 an elephant climbed up the stairs of the Eiffel Tower and then climbed back down again, and people used to climb the tower's stairs in all sorts of funny ways.

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More facts about Eiffel Tower

  1. A replica Paris built abroad never quite got finished, but they did build a huge replica Eiffel Tower, which was the main bit.

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