Tianducheng, a miniature Paris near Hangzhou, ... China is no stranger to lookalike locations and pop-up cities. From the Venetian water town, also in Hungzhou, ...

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Tianducheng is a luxury real estate development in China that’s a carbon copy of Paris. However, since then it has expanded several times and, while many of its homes remain vacant, it’s now ...

Tianducheng is China's copy of Paris, France that never really thrived as a tourist attraction. advertisement. TheTravel. This Country Has A "Failed" $1 Billion Replica Of Paris.

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Tianducheng, Kangbashi, and Chenggong are all developments built within the last two decades. As Wired and Gizmodo note, developers constructed swaths of luxury housing complexes and charged ...

A lot of the city’s failings stem from its odd location. Huge chunks of farmland surround Tianducheng, which in itself is almost an hour by public transport from Hangzhou’s central train station.

If you visit Tianducheng, a day trip from Shanghai in China's Zhejiang province, you will be confronted by a 354-foot replica of the Eiffel tower. Development on this Paris replica in China began in ...

China has replicas of Venice, the White House, ... but rather that the location is all wrong. Tianducheng’s developers plopped the city in the middle of the rural countryside, ...

Take a look at this picture for a second. You know where that is, right? That's Paris, obviously. There's the Eiffel Tower, and there are some of those quaint Parisian fountains and buildings ...