Vue depuis le sommet (1/5/21)

Because la tour Eiffel literally towers above the surrounding part of Paris, you can see a long way in every direction. The tower also is centrally located around a large number of popular sites. In 1993, our family visited this world renown centerpiece of the 1889 World’s Fair and were able to go up to the second of the three levels.

This blog entry includes scans of photos that show views from the tower, as well as the one above photo taken from our hotel room. Please see Wikipedia’s for the tower’s history: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower >. My 11/14/20 “Snap Shots from Paris” blog entry is related to a walking tour we took to many of the sites noted below.

Stating at the NW, you see the curved Palais de Chaillot on the Seine River in the fore ground, which is now a museum complex, and in the distance beyond a green space, a modern business district.

Moving clockwise to the northeast, you see the Seine River turning to the east. The Arc de Triomphe is in the distance roughly in the middle of the photo.

To the southeast, you look toward the golden dome of the Army Museum within which lies the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Louvre is on the left across Seine.

South of the town is the long landscaped park with the Champ de Mars basin in the center.

And finally, West of the Tower is a more recently redeveloped section of the city on the south side of the Seine. On the far/west end of the long thin island in the Seine sits a small version of the Statue of Liberty.