Alma tunnel where lady diana died.

Princess diana memorial paris tunnel. Her tragic death on 31st august 1997 shocked the world. The understated square is indeed located above the tunnel where she and dodi fayed were killed in a car accident. Anthropologist guy lesoeurs said most people who come here think this was built for her.

Fans have turned the alma tunnel into a love lock shrine to diana image. See pictures of dianas unofficial memorial in paris below locks of love. The square near the site of her fatal car crash on august 31 1997 in a.

Gettyjosh gibbs it was actually installed in 1989 eight years before dianas untimely death to mark the relationship between france and the us. The car crash that claimed the life of princess diana happened in the tunnel below the liberty flame. P aris is to pay tribute to diana princess of wales by naming a square after her the city authorities have announced.

I t is the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of diana princess of wales and i am at the site where the fatal car crash took place that august night in paris in 1997. The magnitude of the emotion it aroused was such that hundreds of mourners flocked to place de lalma. It has since become a memorial for her.

The flame became an attraction for tourists and followers of diana who fly posted the base with commemorative material. Tunnel du pont de lalma. Princess diana memorial is not a memorial as per se.

Some media claimed the erratic behaviour of paparazzi following the car. It was reconstructed in the mid 1970s to accomodate the ever increasing traffic and to fix the slowly sinking bridge. The flame of liberty became an unofficial memorial for diana princess of wales after her 1997 death in the tunnel beneath the pont de lalma.

In the early hours of 31 august 1997 diana princess of wales died in hospital after being injured in a car crash in a road tunnel in parisher partner dodi fayed and the driver of the mercedes benz w140 henri paul were pronounced dead at the scenetheir bodyguard trevor rees jones survived with serious injuries.