The Eiffel Tower of France

One of the world's history that exists in continental Europe is the Eiffel Tower. the Eiffel Tower of France discussed. (Tour Eiffle) tower is an iron in the wake in the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The Tower has become a global icon of France and one of the world's most famous structures.

This structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance of the Exposition Universelle, a world's fair to celebrate a century of the French Revolution. Eiffel Tower actually planning on building in Barcelona, for the Universal exhibition of 1888, but the parties responsible at the Town Hall of Barcelona consider it bizarre and expensive, and incompatible with the city. After the rejection of the plan Barcelona, Eiffel send drafnya to the responsible party for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he built his Tower a year later, in 1889. 

The tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889, and opened on May 6. Three hundred workers of combine with embedded iron parts 18.083 (pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million rivets, in the form of structural by Maurice Koechelin. The risk of an accident is very large, for modern skyscrapers that tower is unusually open without the middle level except the two platforms. But because Eiffel took a cautious stance, including the use of a crane, Rails and moving scenes, and in this case only one who died.

The Tower has a height of 300 meters and above it there is a television antenna as high as 24 m. Wind can cause the tower to sway as many as 6-7 cm and the heat can cause the top of the Tower away from the Sun by up to 18 cm. Eiffel Tower holds the record for the tallest building for 40 years.

A sturdy Tower is owned by the local Government of Paris and run by private companies, "Société Nouvelle de l'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel", the iron frame is completely renovated every 7 years and painted with 50 tons of paint. Site renovations is done though a worker manguasai alpinis and sporting akrobatis.

Information: "Iron Girl" is lit with 352 projektor 1,000 watts and blinking every sengah hours at night with 20,000 light bulbs and 800 lights disco.

In order to make the Tower seems to be more to life, Zenon laser lights 4, consisting of 6,000 watts permanently rotating on top of the tower.

The number of stairs: 1,665 stairs for visitors who enjoy sports. There are 2 lifts that go up to the second level where can I found a variety of souvenir shops.