Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...
Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...
Even the family of Gustave Eiffel (the designer of the tower) have stated that ... world's view of one city belies the ...
From the Louvre Museum to the Eiffel Tower, from Paris' poshest districts to its most working-class neighbourhoods, hundreds ...
The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games will pass through all 110 provinces in Italy on a 63-day journey before the cauldron is lit. Organizers announced the route for the torch relay ...
A skyscraper set to become Japan’s tallest at a staggering 390 meters will be called Torch Tower, its developer, Mitsubishi Estate Co., announced on Sept. 17. The building, scheduled to be ...
The balloon, lit by the Olympic torch and set off into the sky ... a permanent monument in the City of Lights - just like the Eiffel Tower, which was supposed to only be a temporary construction ...
The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...