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Eiffel tower
The Eiffel Tower is the most famous memorial to which the city of Paris is famous compared to the cultural monuments in it. This tower, which the visitor cannot miss, is located in the northwest of the Champ de Mars park near the Seine River in Paris. This tower was named this name in relation to the architect Gustave Eiffel Who built it to be a front and gate for the international exhibition in Paris in 1889 AD, and today it is considered a symbol of France and the first tourist site in Paris, and the ninth French site in terms of tourism and number of visitors.
Information about the Eiffel Tower
The history of the construction of the Eiffel Tower
The idea of this project was started on January 26, 1887AD, and construction continued for two years and two months, and 50 engineers and 300 workers participated in the construction of the monument, and the construction of the foundations of the tower took five months, which is a record period, and the tower itself has taken It is 21 months old, and the construction work ended on March 31 of 1889 AD, and it was officially opened on May 6, 1889 A.D. Hitler is said to admire the construction of this tower and climbed on its feet after the French disrupted its elevators during the period of Germany’s colonization of France.
Mm made eiffel tower
This iron tower consists of 18.038 pieces of solid iron, 2.5 million nails, i.e. a total weight of 10 tons of iron, and an area of about 15.625 square meters. It is said that this iron was brought from Algeria during the period of France’s colonization of Algeria, and its height is approximately 327 meters, and this tower consists of three floors, where the height of the first floor is 57 meters, and contains an audio-visual museum that explains to the visitors the story of the construction of this tower, and the second floor rises 115 meters, and the tower includes many restaurants, and shops devoted to selling souvenirs, and the floor The third rises to a distance of 274 meters, and is dedicated to all Over the capital, Paris.
When constructing this tower, it faced a lot of criticism, as it raises ridicule, as many writers and artists thought about getting rid of it by dismantling it, but all attempts were unsuccessful, but it was decided to use this tower in installing radio broadcast antennas in 1918 and in television broadcasting in 1957 AD. Today, the Eiffel Tower is owned by the Municipality of Paris, and there is a specialized company working on its management, and the tower has succeeded in pumping huge amounts of money through the price of tickets paid by visitors when going up to the end of the tower and seeing Paris from high altitude after it was the tallest building in that period.
