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120-Year-Old Eiffel Tower Gets Facelift

One hundred twenty years after its completion, the Eiffel Tower is a getting a facelift — a paint job that will take 18 months to outfit the monument from tip to toe in a new coat of coppery brown. Twenty-five painters are on the job to cover 250,000 square metres of metal of monument. The 324-metre-high tower receives more than six million visitors per year.


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