without the 324m-high eiffel tower in paris , the skyline looks incredibly bare and dark .
is not surprising considering it has 336 lamps illuminating it at night , that the iconic tower , on the champ de mars , was opened in 1889 and has come to define the french capital .
the arc de triomphe was constructed in 1806 , and is the centrepiece of place charles de gaulle at the end of the champs-élysées that