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The Eiffel Tower was actually originally intended to stand in Barcelona. Unfortunately, Gustave Eiffel (the artist behind the Eiffel tower) decided that Barcelona was too "ugly" to put the Eiffel tower, so he sold it to Paris instead. French critics don't much like the Eiffel tower either.

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