A Heart from the Eiffel Tower

I did an exchange trip to France in June 2007, and once of the many places I was able to visit in France was the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was one of the many highlights of my stay in France, and I plan on sharing some photos of the Eiffel Tower as well as some other things I saw in France in the coming weeks, but this photo is one of my favorite ones out of all of my Eiffel Tower-related photos.

This photo was taken from the view of the first floor of the tower. As I was admiring the Parisian skyline and the fantastic view the Eiffel Tower offered, I noticed that there was a large heart carved into the grass at the Champ de Mars. The heart is a little asymmetrical, a little crooked, and if you look at the photo in its full resolution you can see that there are birds sitting on the left half of the heart, but I think the heart is adorable. Sadly, I never found out why the heart was there, or even if it has always been there and I had simply never known about it before. With Paris being known as the “city of love,” to me, this heart is the perfect symbol of the romance that often idealizes Paris.

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.