This modest reproduction of the Eiffel Tower was built in Summer 1889 for the festivities of San Lor
This modest reproduction of the Eiffel Tower was built in Summer 1889 for the festivities of San Lorenzo in Lavapiés, one of the most popular neighborhoods of Madrid. Made of wood and cloth, it stood 21 mt. tall, with a platform for a music band. On top of the structure, two spotlights illuminated the street. The citizens of Madrid, always prone to give a nickname to everyone and every single thing, from kings to waste bins, immediatly baptized it as la Torre Infiel (that’s it, the Infidel Tower). An ultracatholic newspaper (in contradiction with the wooden tower’s sobriquet) took the matter perhaps too seriously celebrating Madrid’s parody of the ungodly centenary of the French Revolution. The little known bastard sister of the Parisian landmark didn’t survive for a long time.Source of the images: Memoria de Madrid -- source link
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