Santo Domingo's own Eiffel Tower

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Chirimoya

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Trending "bigly" on social media this week is the SD West mayor's purchase of a model of the Eiffel Tower, which used to stand outside the Hispaniola hotel's casino. He says he paid half a million pesos for the item and has placed it in Plaza de la Bandera as a Christmas decoration.

Hilarity ensued when he was quoted as saying that as he is neither a historian nor an anthropologist he didn't know which country the tower came from:

?Yo no s? si es Eiffel, si es de Francia, o de d?nde es, lo que s? es que vi esa estructura en el hotel Hispaniola y el hotel nos la propuso de una manera barata?,
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Memes immediately appeared on social media with other world famous monuments like the statue of Liberty superimposed on Santo Domingo city scenes.

People started asking whether we now needed a Schengen visa to cross Luper?n avenue, and one commentator remarked that now we have the Eiffel Tower we should also have a guillotine.

Tour Eiffel in Santo Domingo
The Tuesday, 28 November 2016 edition of El D?a reports on the construction of the high-standing Tour Eiffel saying that it ?steals the show? from the Plaza de la Bandera flag monument in the nearby rotunda.
According to reports, the metal structure is a project being implemented by the Santo Domingo West municipality, under Mayor Francisco Pe?a, who was re-elected in the 2016 general election. El D?a says that Santo Domingo?s Tour Eiffel will be lit up for the holidays, and will remain as a permanent fixture in Santo Domingo West. The mayor was not available for comment on the structure and its cost.
http://eldia.com.do/torre-le-roba-sh...de-la-bandera/
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Chirimoya said:
Trending "bigly" on social media this week is the SD West mayor's purchase of a model of the Eiffel Tower, which used to stand outside the Hispaniola hotel's casino. He says he paid half a million pesos for the item and has placed it in Plaza de la Bandera as a Christmas decoration.

Hilarity ensued when he was quoted as saying that as he is neither a historian nor an anthropologist he didn't know which country the tower came from:



Memes immediately appeared on social media with other world famous monuments like the statue of Liberty superimposed on Santo Domingo city scenes.

People started asking whether we now needed a Schengen visa to cross Luper?n avenue, and one commentator remarked that now we have the Eiffel Tower we should also have a guillotine.
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Another contestant for the Darwin Award...he will end up high in the charts!
(what an incredible moron :disappoin)
 
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