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EIFFEL TOWER

 B4 ⌂ Quai Branly and Champ-de-Mars q Bir-Hakeim @ 42, 69, 72, 82,
87 to Champ-de-Mars W Champ-de-Mars x Tour Eiffel # Sep–Jun:
9:30am–11:45pm daily (6:30pm for stairs); Jul & Aug: 9am–12:45am
EXPERIENCE Paris: Champs-Élysées and Invalides Originally built to impress visitors to the 1889 THE TOWER
¢ 14 Jul ∑ toureiffel.paris
An impressive feat of engineering and the most distinctive
symbol of Paris, the Eiffel Tower stands 324 m (1,063 ft) tall
and offers unrivalled views over the city.

Universal Exhibition the Eiffel Tower (Tour
IN FIGURES
Eiffel) was meant to be a temporary addition
to the Paris skyline. Built by the engineer
276 m (905 ft):
Gustave Eiffel, it was fiercely decried by
the height of the
19th-century aesthetes – it is said that the
viewing gallery
author Guy de Maupassant frequently ate
on the third level.
lunch at the tower as it was the only place he
1,665: the number
could avoid seeing it. The world’s tallest
of steps leading up
structure until 1931, when New York’s Empire
State Building was completed, the tower is
now an icon of Paris and attracts 7 million
2.5 million: the number
visitors a year. The glass-floored first level
of rivets holding the
houses a visitor centre and an inter active
tower together.
museum chronicling the history of the tower. to the third level.
7 cm (2.5 in): the
maximum amount
the tower ever sways.
10,100 tonnes: the
tower’s total weight.
60 tonnes: the amount
of paint needed to
decorate the ironwork.
18 cm (7 in): how far
the top can move in
a curve under the
effect of heat.
The view from the tower,
ranging up to 72 km (45 miles)
The Eiffel
Tower under
construction
in April 1888,
less than
halfway
complete

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