One of the Eiffel Towers is the original standing in Paris.

The other is a replica located in Tianducheng, in the suburbs of Hangzhou in China.

Replicas of famous monuments are common around the world, but there is something pervasive and obsessive about Tianducheng.

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The replica Eiffel Tower here is over one hundred meters tall, or one-third the size of the original.

Which one is in Paris?

But its only a facade.

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People living in Tianducheng live there as they would anywhere else in China, observes Prost.

I was thinking maybe they would also have tried to recreate a French restaurant, said Prost.

The sites in France attract thousands and thousands of tourist per day its never ending!

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All photographs on the left is in China.

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