Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was originally only created to participate to a Universal Art Exhibition competition in 1889. It was built by Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, an engineer who had experience in constructing high-level railway viaducts. The Eiffel Tower won the competition but was supposed to be destroyed (unbuilt) after the exhibition.
The Meaning of "arrondissement"
Parisian have a neighborhoody vision of their city. The city of Paris is divided in 20 neighborhoods (arrondissement) slightly different one to each other and Parisian are very proud of the neighborhood they live in. you have the fancy bourgeois neighborhood, the working class neighborhood, the finance neighborhood, etc...
When you ask a Parisian where he lives, he/she will tell you :'I live in Paris in the 16th arrondissement !' for example. - If he/she does not tell you in which arrondissement, that usually means that it is not a good one :-)
All Paris "intra-Murros" (Click Here)
Paris Par Arrondissement (By District)
Check your hotel by Arrondissement (by district)
there are 20 districts in Paris "Intra-Murros"
1st Arrondissement (district 1)
2nd Arrondissement (District 2)
3rd Arrondissement (District 3)
4th Arrondissement (District 4)
5th Arrondissement (District 5)
6th Arrondissement (District 6)
7th Arrondissement (District 7)
8th Arrondissement (District 8)
9th Arrondissement (District 9)
10th Arrondissement (District 10)
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