The Eiffel Tower
symbol of Paris and France, the Eiffel Tower meeting a success than anyone could have imagined at the time of its construction in 1889. It annually hosts nearly 7 million visitors and has become over the decades a key monument.
Paris icon and icon of France, the Eiffel Tower, great "Iron Lady", 324 meters dominates the city of light. Vertiginous emblem of the Industrial Revolution in the heart of Paris.
Adorned with gold from the dark (since 1985), it sparkles five minutes at the beginning of each hour from the transition to the year 2000. Again, a temporary installation made permanent. With her fragile figure, graceful and dizzying, the Eiffel Tower was to be short-lived when it was built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889.
More than a monument, it has become the "soul" of the city of light, in the firmament of the Seine and the Paris sky. "Useless and irreplaceable Edifice, familiar world and heroic symbol, the witness to a century and always new monument, an inimitable and endlessly reproduced object ..." said Roland Barthes (The Eiffel Tower, delpirre editor, 1964).
To achieve the first two floors, you have to take the elevator or climb the stairs - 704 steps to the second floor. The ascent offers an unusual visit to the heart of the steel structure of the tower, with unique views of the capital ..
Each floor offers visitors a wide range of visual breaks, cultural or taste: route the "Eiffel Tower Epic" and Cineiffel the first to discover unusual images of the Tower, gourmet restaurant Le Jules Verne in the second, Gustave office reconstitution...
(France.fr)
More than a monument, it has become the "soul" of the city of light, in the firmament of the Seine and the Paris sky. "Useless and irreplaceable Edifice, familiar world and heroic symbol, the witness to a century and always new monument, an inimitable and endlessly reproduced object ..." said Roland Barthes (The Eiffel Tower, delpirre editor, 1964).
To achieve the first two floors, you have to take the elevator or climb the stairs - 704 steps to the second floor. The ascent offers an unusual visit to the heart of the steel structure of the tower, with unique views of the capital ..
Each floor offers visitors a wide range of visual breaks, cultural or taste: route the "Eiffel Tower Epic" and Cineiffel the first to discover unusual images of the Tower, gourmet restaurant Le Jules Verne in the second, Gustave office reconstitution...
(France.fr)
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