How old is the Eiffel tower?

On March 31st, the Eiffel tower celebrated its 130 years old. Do you know that it is the most visited in France?

Eiffel Tower was built for the World Exhibition from January 28th 1887 to March 31st 1889. It was built only for the time of the exhibition. It was build by Gustave Eiffel and his contributors: Stephen Sauvestre, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier.
As it was useful to broadcast radio and television programs, the tower has remained.

Description

The height: 324m with the antenn (without 300 m).
The weight: 10,100 tons which 7300 tons of metallic structure.
18,038 metal parts and 2,500,000 rivets, without mentionning the cost of the maintenance that involves each year.
It cost the equivalent of 32 millions of euros.
10000 bulbs light the Eiffel tower every night.

It has 3 floors.
First floor: shops.
Second floor: a restaurant (125 meters from the ground).
Third floor: panoramic view of Paris

To go upstairs, the Eiffel Tower is equipped with 1665 stairs (From the ground to the top) and 6 lifts. Most of them come down and up between the ground floor to the second floor. They are set in each pilar of the tower. One is reserved to access to the restaurant. They made of glasses.


Localisation

Eiffel Tower is located in Paris (France), near the Champ de Mars and Trocadero.

Visitors

This monument is the most visisted in the world and in the country. There would be 249,976,000 visitors per year.
The advantages for visitors are, it opens at daytime and it closes late in the night. You can visit it safely because they are 530 monitoring locations and is equipped with numerous automatic fire extinguishers and more than 200 fire extinguishers.


Events

For events in Paris, Paris city hall chooses the Eiffel tower to launch fireworks. You can see them on January 1st and on Bastille day.

The place of the Eiffel Tower around the world

It has been an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. It is very famous around the world and when you speak with someone from abroad, when they visit Paris, s/he visited this big lady, at least, once in her/his life. When they think France or Paris, they have in their mind the Eiffel tower.

The Eiffel tower is so famous that some cities have their own Eiffel towers. They have been reproduced identically. I counted them and I found the number of 25 across the world.


Gifts

The Eiffel Tower is represented on various supports. T-shirts, mugs, phone cases, purses .... If you, or one of your loved ones, are fans of Paris or the Eiffel Tower, you can order below to please you or make him happy.

- Shirt
- Mug
- Bag, Bag, Purse
- Phone case
- Other accessories