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Top 30 Attraction 1 Eiffel Tower MUST SEE!
If you only have time to visit one sight in Paris the Eiffel Tower should be it. The Eiffel
Tower or in French “Tour Eiffel” is the most distinctive symbol of Paris. The Tower was
named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who designed and built the tower for the World
Fair in 1889. The tower formed the entrance for the exhibition and still remains the tallest
building in Paris.
The iron lattice tower was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company de-
signed and built the tower as the entrance arch to the 1889 World Fair
The Eiffel Tower was not only the tallest building of Paris but of the entire world until the
Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. It is now the world's most visited
man-made structure: it has been estimated that more than 250 million people have visited
the tower.
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