Tour Perret
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The Tour Perret is
- a highrise building in AmiensAmiensAmiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...
, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. - a 95 metre tall observation tower at GrenobleGrenobleGrenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
, France, built in 1925 for the International Exhibition of Hydropower and TourismInternational Exhibition of Hydropower and TourismThe International exhibition of hydropower and tourism was an exhibition which ran from May 21 to October 25, 1925 in the city of Grenoble in France, in order to dedicate the city, the capital of "white coal".In 1925, Grenoble was the site of an international exhibition on hydroelectric power and...
, also called Tour d'Orientation.
External links
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b47649
- http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Perret_(Grenoble)
- http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Perret_(Amiens)