It's about as tall as The Arc de Triomphe
It's about as tall as Nelson's Column
In other words, 50 meters is 0.9682 times the height of Nelson's Column, and the height of Nelson's Column is 1.03 times that amount.
(London, England, United Kingdom) (from pedestal first step to tip of statue's hat)Nelson's Column measures 51.64 m from the first step of the pedestal's base to the top of the statue's hat. While the London tower is the tallest, there are at least eight other monuments to Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Barbados.
It's about one-and-one-tenth times as tall as The Chicago Water Tower
In other words, 50 meters is 1.1 times the height of The Chicago Water Tower, and the height of The Chicago Water Tower is 0.935 times that amount.
(Chicago, Illinois)The Chicago Water Tower is 46.9 m tall. The tower's architecture was one source of inspiration behind the design of White Castle fast-food restaurants beginning with "Building Number 8," a prefabricated structure built in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1936.
It's about nine-tenths as tall as The Mahabodhi Temple
In other words, 50 meters is 0.91 times the height of The Mahabodhi Temple, and the height of The Mahabodhi Temple is 1.1 times that amount.
(a.k.a. Great Awakening Temple, a.k.a. Maha Bodhi Temple, a.k.a. Temple of Bodh Gaya, a.k.a. Mahabodhi Mahavihar) (Bodh Gaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India)The tower of the Mahabodhi Temple measures 55 m in total height. The site has been of sacred interest for more than 2,000 years, with the current Temple dating back at least 1,400 years.
It's about nine-tenths as tall as The Leaning Tower of Pisa
In other words, 50 meters is 0.887 times the height of The Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the height of The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 1.13 times that amount.
(a.k.a. The Tower of Pisa, a.k.a. Torre pendente di Pisa) (Pisa, Italy) (height along center axis)The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands 56.4 m tall along the angle of its lean. In May of 2008, in an successful effort to stabilize the tower, 70 tonnes of earth were removed from the tower's base on the side opposite the lean.
It's about nine-tenths as tall as The Cinderella Castle
In other words, 50 meters is 0.868 times the height of The Cinderella Castle, and the height of The Cinderella Castle is 1.15 times that amount.
(Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida)Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle is 57.6 m tall. The castle's architecture uses the optical trick known as "forced perspective" — the castle gets smaller near the top — to appear larger than it truly is.
It's about one-and-one-fifth times as long as Ha'Penny Bridge
In other words, 50 meters is 1.17 times the length of Ha'Penny Bridge, and the length of Ha'Penny Bridge is 0.855 times that amount.
(a.k.a. Droichead na Leathphingine, a.k.a. Liffey Bridge, a.k.a. Droichead na Life, f.k.a. Wellington Bridge) (Quay of Bachelors Walk, Temple Bar Neighborhood, Dublin, Ireland)The Ha'Penny Bridge, crossing the River Liffey in Dublin, measures 42.9 meters in total length. Over 30,000 pedestrians cross the breach each day. |