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National Geographic Documentary - Things you didn t know about Eiffel Tower Full Documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl ˈtaʊər/ eye-fəl towr; French: Tour Eiffel French pronunciation: [tuʁ‿ɛfɛl] About this sound listen) 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 in 1889 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.[3] 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 (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) 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 (17 ft). Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second-tallest structure in France after the Millau Viaduct.
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I visited Paris in the early 80s when I was stationed in West Germany in the US Army. I remember our tour guide saying after the Eifel Tower was built that there was a well known critic who disliked the Eifel Tower so much he claimed there was only one restaurant in Paris he could eat where he could look out the window and NOT see the Eifel Tower.
That was the restaurant actually inside the Eifel Tower itself. Haha.
I visited Paris then in the winter and was only able to go up to the second level of the Eifle Tower. We were told the elevator used to go from the second level to the top level was hydraulically operated and was not used in the winter.
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