DSC_3995 - Dream in Paris. The funs Dream, of Trocadeiro Square, has a beautiful carousel which also has a magnificent view of the Iron Lady, the Eiffel Tower, a special representation of Paris. Carousel or merry-go-round. The word comes from the Italian and Spanish garosello carousel Carosella (little battle) used by crusaders to describe a combat preparation exercise and game played by Turkish and Arabian Knights in the 12th century The early carousels had no platforms: the animals to hang on poles or chains to fly out of the centrifugal force of the spinning mechanism, which are called flying horses carousels. They were often powered by animals that walked in a circle or people pulling a rope to the crank. The earliest representation of a carousel is a bas-relief Byzantine dated about 500 AD, which depicts riders in baskets suspended from a central pole. The Palais de Chaillot is a palace of exhibitions situated at the Trocadero Square and November 11 (Place du Trocadero et du eleven novembre), on the hill of Chaillot. Was carried out under the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937 by the architects, and winners of the Prix de Rome, Léon Azéma, Jacques Carlu and Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, in place at the site of the Old Palais du Trocadéro. Villa Trocadéro was a palace in Moorish style, flanked by two minarets 70 meters high. The Ancien Palais du Trocadéro was built then by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, with gardens of Alphand engineer. Later, under the Universal Exhibition of 1937, the building was destroyed and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot. The Trocadero Gardens dominates the view of the Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars, adorned by sculptures and vegetation organized within a park to the English. This garden is framed by tanks and waterfall, the source of Warsaw, which were erected in 1937 and served for twenty water jets in eight successive stages. The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a nineteenth-century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It is the tallest building in Paris, is the most visited paid monument in the world, millions of people ascend the tower each year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower design was created for the Universal Exhibition of 1889, the Worlds Fair, which would celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution. The tower with a metal frame that would then become the tallest structure in the world built by man. With its 324 meters high, had 7300 tons when it was built. Paris - França Nikon D7000. Nikkor VR 28-300 Exif: 1/60s – F 4 – 24mm – ISO 1000 flickr/photos/mviniciussousa
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