China Has a Fake Paris Built in 2007 as a replica of the French capital, Tianducheng, a suburb of Hangzhou, in China, even has a fake 108 m high Eiffel Tower. Except that… as opposed to the real Paris, the streets of the Chinese Paris are empty.With the help of our friends at the Daily Geek Show, go and discover this mysterious fake Paris.We knew that Paris was admired the world over, with copies of the Eiffel Tower in many cities worldwide, but the Chinese went a step further. They didn’t just create a casino or an amusement park, but they recreate a faithful full-sized copy of the city of lights. From buildings in the Haussman style to the Montmartre vineyards, without forgetting of course the Eiffel Tower, everything is faithfully reproduced…. Or almost. The famous tower is only 108 m high, compared to the 324m of the original Eiffel Tower.Originally built to make the Chinese middle class visit their own country and to give an idea of Paris to the Chinese people who can’t afford to travel, this fake is now almost left derelict. Only 2000 people inhabit the almost 700 buildings of the town, which represents an average of about 30 people per building. The main interest of this ghost town was to attract potential tourists who love Paris and who wanted to take their wedding pictures in a French garden, to walk near the replica of the Trocadero or the Champ de Mars.Some people explain this phenomenon of replicating big cities on Chinese territory by a governmental will to incite its middle class to stay in China to keep the money spent in China, but also to prevent the population to be fully exposed to French-style democracy… This is an interpretation, but it’s not necessarily the truth more:pariszigzag/paris-culture/a-cloned-version-of-paris-in-china
Posted on: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:09:14 +0000
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