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4 people to live at Eiffel Tower during Paris soccer tournament

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 19, 2016 - 10:54 pm
 
People pass by a dimmed Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. The tower was dimmed for the night following the attacks in Paris. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

PARIS — Four lucky competition winners are set to be the first people in history to use the Eiffel Tower as a vacation home next month.

Rental company HomeAway is taking over part of the first floor of the iconic landmark for the duration of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament in Paris, and transforming it into Hausmannian-style living quarters.

The competition opens Thursday for the chance to stay in the famous monument, which provides panoramic views onto the Arc de Triomphe, the Sacre Coeur and the Seine river.

Brian Sharples, HomeAway CEO, called the move “unprecedented” and said it was “guaranteed to provide the most epic vacation memories of a lifetime.”

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