A universal Tower of Babel, almost 300 million visitors regardless of age or origin have come from all over the planet to see it since its opening in 1889.

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

Constructed from 1887–89 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.
The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015. The tower is 324 metres tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the

Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. Due to the addition of a

broadcasting aerial at the top of the tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres. Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second tallest structure in France after the Millau Viaduct. The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second levels. The top level's upper platform is 276 m above the ground – the highest observation deck accessible to the public in the European Union. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the climb from the first level to the second. Although there is a staircase to the top level, it is usually accessible only by lift.

History 

The Eiffel Tower, one of the must sees in Paris, can't be missed from any spot while walking around in the city. It was built by the French engineer Gustave Eiffel which was

already famous at the time for building bridges. He spent several years building the Eiffel

Tower as a monument for the World Exhibition in 1889. Although today, it is without doubt one of the most recognizable monuments in Europe, one that can be compared to the

Statue of Liberty in New York, the Big Ben is London and the Taj Mahal in India, it was not supposed to be permanent when it was first introduced. After the Eiffel Tower was built, it faced a lot of criticism from Paris artistic and literary elite. The fact is, that the tower was

almost torn down sometime in 1909 while the only reason it was eventually kept was due to its ability to provide a perfect platform for transmitting antennas. Slowly, the Eiffel Tower became a permanent part of Paris view, settling in the hearts of Parisians as the symbol of Paris providing it with the most beautiful and famous skyline during the evening. It is possible to climb up the stairs as far as the third floor. Going up to the top though is possible only using the elevator. From the top of the Eiffel Tower, Paris at 1,050 ft (320 meters) is very romantic, especially in the evening. You can reserve your ticket or book a guided tour online which will skip the lines as well.

Hight  

The main structure of the is Eiffel Tower is 300 meters tall, although the height including antennas is 324 meters. This height is roughly equivalent to that of an 81-storey building. Interestingly, the Eiffel Tower can shrink by 6 inches during cold temperatures. The tower

has a square base that measures 125 meters by 125 meters. The Eiffel Tower has three

levels, and visitors can access the first and second levels by either lifts (elevators) or stairs. There are 1,665 steps to the top of the tower. However, the third level can be accessed only by lifts. The tower has a total of eight lifts. The wrought iron structure of the Eiffel Tower is made up of 18,000 metallic parts and is held together by 2.5 million rivets. As such, the tower is heavy and weighs approximately 10,100 tonnes. The Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument as the tallest man-made structure in the world. It remained the tallest structure until the Chrysler Building was built in New York City in 1930. However, the addition of broadcasting antennas on the top of the tower in 1957 meant that the Eiffel Tower was taller than the Chrysler building by 5.2 meters. The Eiffel Tower was the tallest

structure in France, but became the second tallest in the country after the completion of the Millau Viaduct (343 meters tall) in 2004. It is also the most visited paid monument in the world. In fact, an estimated 200 million people have visited the Eiffel Tower since its inauguration.

Location

The Eiffel Tower is in Paris, France. When we said that, we did not say much because this information is known around the world. It is therefore more interesting to specify that it is in the center of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, in the 7th arrondissement. It is exactly

between the Trocadero, in the North, and the fields of Mars, in the South, the Seine separating the Trocadero from the tower. Even further south, there is the military school and its very pretty facade. There is another way to find the location of the tower when you are in Paris: Raise your eyes! It is so imposing that we see it well, as long as the perspective of the avenues leaves a little space to see in the distance, or you are a bit high, because otherwise the buildings mask it anyway easily.

Night

It's a no-brainer to swing by the Eiffel Tower during a Parisian vacation. But it's weirdly a no-no to snap a photo of the famous structure while it's illuminated at night. The Eiffel Tower was made to be in lights.Soon after it was erected for the Paris Exposition in 1889, the 1,060-foot structure was illuminated by thousands of gaslights. In 1900, Paris celebrated another exposition by bathing the tower in electric light. Twenty-five years later, the carmaker André Citröen used it as a giant advertisement for his company, running the word ''Citröen'' with stars, comets and signs of the zodiac down its spine in colored lights

. Since 1985, 352 sodium lamps set inside the lacy pig-iron structure have given it a yellow-orange hue at night. Tonight, after nine months of casting, bolting, wiring and painting, the latest phase in the lighting of the national landmark began, as 20,000 lights started to blink at 11:30 p.m. They will dazzle every night, for 10 minutes every hour on the hour until after midnight, embellishing the current lighting scheme. The new effect is simple, elegant and bright white, one result of a $5 million project scheduled to last a decade. It involves about 70 tons of equipment, 26 miles of electrical wiring and a team of 40 mountaineers, architects and engineers. The tower is a fabulous, playful, festive medium, an incredible billboard, said Marc Gaillard, a historian of Paris and the author of a book on the Eiffel Tower. ''It symbolizes Paris for the entire world, so giving it a spectacular face makes it even better.'' There are other lively events in Paris these days -- a tango festival, a fishing contest on the Canal Saint Martin and a kitsch fair in the Marais. Paris Plage, a manufactured beach on the banks of the Seine, will reopen next month. The Eiffel Tower lighting coincides with a music festival that blends formal concerts with impromptu jamming on Paris streets. It is one thing to bathe Notre Dame in bright white lights, but the Eiffel Tower workers had to endure high winds, sudden snowstorms and pigeon droppings. They encountered dozens of bats when they labored over the project at night. Pyramid-shaped glass fixtures had to be mounted in 42 varieties of lead-free galvanized steel casings to fit every angle of the structure. Electrical cables were protected in long steel tubes. As an additional security measure, each light fixture was strung on metal wiring woven throughout the tower's structure. The biggest pressure was knowing that there were people standing on the ground below, said Fred Novel, a 33-year-old supervisor with Jarnias Enterprise, the company in charge of the project. ''There was this terrible fear that a piece of metal could drop from my hands at any time and fall on the crowd. Then there were the tourists who stared at us as if we were extraterrestrials.'' Indeed, tourists gaped at Mr

. Novel, a professional mountaineer and guide dressed in blue overalls and with a long braid, as he clamped himself to a girder and did last-minute midair checks of cables and screws. As the project went along, architects discovered that the existing architectural plan of the Eiffel Tower was inaccurate, so it had to be redrawn by computer. Engineers had to invent tools, including drills with magnets, to ensure that holes drilled on the angled surfaces were straight. They also discovered that their first system of bolts did not work and had to be refitted. Rain and snow made the metal structure too slick to maneuver on, but also sometimes too slippery to descend, leaving workers trapped for hours. Tough industrial safety rules meant that the climbers had to wear helmets and use double the number of ropes and other security devices that they would have needed in the mountains. Laboratory tests were conducted so that the lights could withstand winds of more than 150 miles per hour. Jean-Paul Jarnias, the president of Jarnias Enterprise, traces his company to the Eiffel Tower. Ten years ago, when Mr. Jarnias was a professional mountain climber and a guide, he was asked by a client to project the image of the Ariane rocket from the Eiffel Tower. It inspired the creation of Mr. Jarnias's company, which has since become the go-to place for dangerous construction projects. Elsewhere, Mr. Jarnias strung nets under the giant arch at La Défense when pieces of that 1989 structure began to break off and fall, and worked on restoring the crumbling roof of the Opéra Garnier. Jarnias was also the company that decked the Eiffel Tower in thousands of lights housed in plastic garlands for the 2000 millennium lighting project, when the tower resembled a Christmas tree. But that arrangement lasted only a few months. The light show was switched on tonight in a ceremony replete with fireworks and overseen by the mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, who has fully recovered from a stabbing attack; it occurred when he was supervising another evening celebration, the Sleepless Night cultural festival, when he kept all Paris museums open with free admission one Saturday night last fall. The tower will retain its all-white elegance. This is not Niagara Falls, which is illuminated in 4,000-watt iridescent spotlights that change color throughout the evening. I have come to understand the genius, really the genius it took in this construction when I think about all our small difficulties, Mr. Jarnias said. I have much, much, much more respect for this monument. We found a mountain -- in the middle of Paris.


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