The Eiffel Tower in Paris is one the most well known monuments in the world visited by more than 5 million people each year. It is located at Champ de Mars, 75007 Paris. The panoramas of the Eiffel Tower can be viewed as both Java and QTVR at its official site. http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/index.html

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The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower. At 300 metres (320.75m including antenna), and 7000 tons, it was the world’s tallest building until 1930. During its lifetime, the Eiffel Tower has also witnessed a few strange scenes, including being scaled by a mountaineer in 1954, and parachuted off of in 1984 by two Englishmen. In 1923 a journalist rode a bicycle down from the first level.

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Corsica is in the Tyrrhenian Sea in the western Mediterranean, 160 kms south-west of the French Riviera and 82 kms west of the coast of Tuscany, on the same latitude as Rome. Corsica is mountainous and its highest point is Monte Cintu at 2710 m. Corsica is about 180 kms by 80 kms. The coast is 1000 kilometres (300 are beach) long and has amazing cliffs, long sandy beaches and many hidden coves. It is almost certainly the least ’spoiled’ coastline of France. By comparison with the built up coasts of mainland France, Corsica’s are relatively unspoiled and jealously guarded.

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The island has a Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. The natural vegetation is Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrubs. The mountains are cooler and wetter, and home to the Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion, which supports diverse forests of oak, pine, and broadleaf deciduous trees, with vegetation more typical of northern Europe on the slopes of the highest peaks.

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Porto is situated on the Western Coast at the end of a Gulf which bears its name, lined-up in the South by Piana and its calanches in the North by the peninsula of Girolata. A little seaside resort on the west coast, Porto is famous for its dazzling sunsets - one of the most magnificent in the Mediterranean. Boasting an unusual Genoese watch tower and bordered by red granite cliffs, it is unsurprising that Porto has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is a little pebble beach, but beware as it does get very busy in the summer months.

The road from Porto to Piana is one of the most awe-inspiring in the world. The Calanches de Piana, spiky red granite rocks jutting straight out of the sea, some rising to 1000ft. The colour of these rocks changes from deep orange to russet red and all the hues in between according to the time of day.

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