Gustave Eiffel

a quick breakfast at the hotel and then take a walking tour by a sight-seeing tour company. The tour is expected to take us along popular routes and attraction Paris has to offer. Some of the places of interests to visit include but not limited to Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Louvre museum, palace of Versailles, Moulin Rouge, Disneyland Paris, Cruise on the Seine etc. These are the typical or rather popular tourist attractions that you would visit in company. These landmarks have some…

The video is about Georges Pompidou center. At 1969 when Georges Pompidou became the president of France he aimed to build a culture center in the downtown of Paris that contain a vast library, art museum, design center, and institute of contemporary music. Therefore, he organized an architecture competition, and for the first time in France, the outlandish architects were allowed to participate. Between six hundred and eighty-one design, this design has been choosing. This design is by the two…

Paris may be known worldwide today as ‘the city of lights’ and home to the unmistakable Eiffel Tower that dominates the city, but there was once a time when Paris was a medieval town, with ancient buildings and streets. Prior to the drastic actions of Georges-Eugène Haussmann to modernise the city, the river Seine was the centre of commerce. This was until his boulevards became the new highways of the city. Haussmann’s renovation of Paris took place between 1853 and 1870, and saw buildings like…

pink brush strokes in the sky that I did not realize how close we were to a huge city. A few women across the aisle on the bus started gasping and pointing – I turned my head to the left and, in the distance, was the Eiffel Tower sparkling at exactly 10pm. My first view of the Eiffel Tower. Soon, I was on the metro to Megan’s apartment. I stood out front, rang the doorbell, and she popped her head out of her 4th-floor apartment window and yelled, “Alfred!” It was a dream just getting to Paris,…

a nearby lawn. The Eiffel Tower’s night sensation The illuminated Eiffel Tower is a majestic sight both from the distance and up-close. If you take the suggested starting point (Saint Louis Islet), only the tower’s tip will be visible in the beginning. As you draw nearer to the tower while you follow the flow of the Seine, it will slowly emerge before your eyes. Make sure to have a clear view of the tower five minutes before the full hour until 1:00 am. It’s when the Eiffel Tower becomes a…

Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino is bestseller travel guide book. Sciolino reveal the charm and the strangeness of this road and it is time to make longtime resident of Paris come alive in all it is unique. This book will make the reader hungry for Paris, for cheese, wine and kind of street life that are too fast disappearing. Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, as the author is a joy to live in the Rue des Martyrs in Paris. Sciolino is attentive jelly every one…

ready. The next thing I knew, my mother was waking me up. I was so confused and for some reason I thought it was the next morning. My mom told it was not. She told me that we both fell asleep on the wrong side of the bed and that we were going to the Eiffel Tower another day. I was really upset for a couple of seconds and then quickly drifted back to sleep. Moral of the story: Jet lag sucks, don’t plan a lot on your first day, and don’t come to Paris on a…

The Atomium originally built for the first major exposition after the World War II, World’s Fair 1958 which also known as Expo 58 in Brussels, Belgium. The Atomium stands 102 metres tall with nine spheres and its stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Actual designed by a Belgian engineer, Andre Waterkeyn, Atomium supposed to stand only for the duration of the sixth-month of the World Exposition…

it a cat? A cow? Maybe a person? They didn’t know. Soon popped out a monster! Scooby and the gang were so scared they ran away from each other. Then, Scooby was all alone.. They all met up again at the Eiffel Tower. The next day, Scooby went on a tour of France. He met some friends at the Eiffel Tower, Mickey, Minnie, Leo the Lion, Pluto, and Bugs, he also met his tour guide, Timmy. Then, Scooby went to a place called, “Paris” to visit his family, he loved his family. His family was really…

Paris. Paris is located in France and is actually the capital. Paris is well known for many things such as the Eiffel Tower, shopping, Art, and many more things. In this paper, I plan on going into great detail about some of the sites in Paris, France. The main thing that everyone wants to see when they go to Paris is the Eiffel Tower. The tower was named after Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and started building on January 28, 1887. Construction was complete until…