Did you know the Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
  on May 6, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was opened to
the public.
 The  Eiffel Tower was originally
supposed to be in Barcelona. But thinking the
thing would end up looking like an eyesore, the
city rejected Gustave Eiffel's plans, and he was
forced to repitch the project elsewhere. Luckily,
Eiffel found a home for his idea in Paris, where
the Tower could serve as the main archway for
the 1889 International Exposition.
Amazingly, the Tower didn't exactly go over well
with the Parisians, either. The enormous iron
structure was immediately belittled by critics,
and one especially harsh reviewer referred to
the thing as a "metal asparagus." Truth be told,
the Eiffel Tower wasn't supposed to stay up for
very long. In fact, it was offered for sale as scrap
and was spared only because it proved useful to
the French army. (They found that its 984-foot
height worked nicely as a communications
tower.)
Thankfully, however, Gustave Eiffel's terrible,
horrible, no good, very bad structure has
managed to endure; the structure received its
200 millionth visitor in 2002, and has become
one of the most recognizable man-made
landmarks the world over.
             #worldfacts21

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