Tianducheng is a copy of Paris built thousands of kilometers from the original

(Patria) - If you look at the panorama of Tianducheng, you cannot help but notice a structure that irresistibly resembles the Eiffel Tower.

Unlike the Parisian tower, which rises to 330 meters, the Chinese version is made to occupy a third of the original, and is only 108 meters high.

This is 52 meters shorter than the tallest replica of the Eiffel Tower in the world, located in front of the "Paris Las Vegas" hotel in Las Vegas.

This is not the only similarity that Tianducheng shares with the capital of France. This Chinese settlement in the Linping district of Zhejiang province in eastern China began to be built in 2007 with the intention of capturing the style of Paris.

About thirty square kilometers of space have been built in a way that imitates Parisian architecture and landscape, writes Punkufer.hr.

In Tianducheng, you will find the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, a fountain from the Luxembourg Garden, and numerous buildings constructed in the French neoclassical style.

French chic was supposed to attract Chinese people and inspire them to buy real estate and start a life in Tianducheng. However, this did not happen at first.

Initially, only a few were willing to take that step. By 2013, only about 2,000 people lived in the settlement, which is why many called it a ghost town.

However, these numbers have been significantly exceeded in the last ten years, as the team from the YouTube channel Yes, Theory found out.

They traveled to China on the premise of exploring a ghost town in China that looks like Paris, but they were surprised when they arrived.

Although the streets of Tianducheng were apocalyptically empty in the morning, by evening they were teeming with cheerful Chinese people.