Eiffel Tower
Crime
The Notorious Con Artist Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice
Victor Lustig, hailing from Austria-Hungary, was a masterful con artist known for orchestrating scams across Europe and the United States in the early 20th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most notorious con artists of his...
Art
Paris 2024 Olympic Medals Feature the Parthenon and Eiffel Tower
The new Olympic medals for Paris 2024 are made of metal removed from the Eiffel Tower during renovation work in the twentieth century and feature, alongside an image of the historic French monument, a depiction of the Parthenon of...
Greek News
Greece’s “Little Paris” Takes on France’s Eiffel Tower
Traveling along the west coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula, in Greece you might be startled to come upon an Eiffel Tower reaching up toward the heavens.
Built in the 1960s, the replica of the iconic Paris monument is situated at...
Europe
Eiffel Tower Briefly Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France was evacuated by authorities over a bomb threat on Saturday afternoon.
The security alert led to the evacuation of all three floors of the emblematic monument. A team of deminers searched the site while...