With a
354-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower at the centre, the vegetable
gardens in the Chinese town of Tianducheng may be the world's most
elaborate allotment.
Where
greens and radishes grow were supposed to be the beautifully manicured
gardens of a development built to be just like Paris.
But those plans were abandoned when developers ran out of money and the garden became overgrown and unsightly.
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A 354-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower
stands at the centre of the failed Paris copycat development in the
Chinese town of Tianducheng
Manicured gardens were supposed to
beautify the town but locals have instead created vegetable gardens at
the foot of the attraction
The few residents who remain in Tianducheng are happy with the gardens say it's better than having weeds taking over the space
Its
one-third scale Eiffel Tower (the real one is 1,063 feet) looks
remarkably realistic, but wasn't enough to entice the 10,000 residents
developers hoped for. Just 2,000 moved in and local media refer to it as
a ghost town.
With
the tower starting to rust and a lift to the top never coming to
fruition, the few residents who remain are largely happy about the
vegetable plots saying they are more appealing than weeds.
Tianducheng opened with great fanfare in 2007 but fell substantially short of their 10,000 resident target
Developers ran out of money and have
failed the complete the project, which is now largely ential towers
The developers blame Tianducheng's location for its failure.
Copycat
towns are no new concept in China, with Italian city of Venice
recreated in the port city of Dalian in China's north-eastern Liaoning
province.
The
World Heritage-listed Austrian Alps village of Hallstatt has also been
mimicked in Guangdong province, much to the disapproval of those from
the original.
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