The Tower
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An object of discorddesire and fascinationthe Eiffel Tower never fails to impress. Enriched by a history full of new developmentshere you can discover all of its key information.
It was at the 1889 Exposition Universellethe date that marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolutionthat a great competition was launched in the Journal Officiel.
The first digging work started on the 26th January 1887. On the 31st March 1889the Tower had been...
The Tower is not Gustave Eiffel’s only creation. This enthusiast and true genius was able to go beyond his own limits to bequeath to us monuments such as the dome on the Nice Observatorythe metallic structure of the Statue of Libertynot to mention the Bordeaux railway bridge.
The tenth Exposition Universelle was organised in Paris in 1889from the 15th May to the 6th Novemberand it was for this occasion that the Eiffel Tower was built. Stretching over 95 hectaresthe Exposition filled the Champ-de-Marsthe Trocadero Hilland the banks up to the...
From the beginning the Tower was an attractionbut in the 1920s it became a symbol of modernity and the avant-garde. Little by littleits image was associated with Parisuntil it even became its worldwide symbol.
Poetspainterssingerschoreographersfilm directorsand...
The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be destroyed only 20 years after its construction. To remedy the situationGustave Eiffel had the ingenious idea of crediting it with a scientific purpose – the Tower was saved!
Almost from the very opening of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Exposition Universellevisitors could access the floors of the monument by taking the elevators. A veritable technical triumph for the time.
The repainting campaign is an important event in the life of the monument and takes on a truly mythical natureas with everything linked to the Eiffel Tower. It represents the lasting quality of a work of art known all over the worldthe colour of the monument that is symbolic...
For the Universal Exhibition of 1889four majestic wooden pavilions designed by Stephen Sauvestre decked the platform on the first floor. Each restaurant could seat 500 people.
« A visionan objecta symbolthe Tower is anything that Man wants it to beand this is infinite. A sight that is looked at and which looks backa structure that is useless and yet irreplaceablea familiar world and a heroic symbolthe witness to a century passing by and a...
Every eveningthe Eiffel Tower is adorned with its golden covering and sparkles for 5 minutes every hour on the hourwhile its beacon shines over Paris.