The Eiffel Tower is a metal tower in the center of Paris, its most recognizable architectural landmark. Named in honor of the chief designer Gustave Eiffel; Eiffel himself called it simply "the 300-meter tower"
The most grandiose, famous, scandalous construction of Paris, of course - the Eiffel Tower. Since its appearance in 1889 as an arch for the World Exhibition, dedicated to the capture of the Bastille, and to this day it is in the center of attention. She was also recognized as an important link in the French economy and valuable property of Europe.
Even 120 years later, it remains the tallest building in Paris and the fifth tallest in all of France. Despite its majestic size, its total weight does not exceed 10 thousand tons, it puts pressure on the ground, equal to the pressure of the person sitting on the chair, and if all the metal of the tower is melted into a single block, it will occupy an area of 25 by 5 m and will be only 6 cm in height! However, nowadays, it would take three times less metal to build a similar structure - the technologies do not stand still.
It is curious that the Eiffel Tower is probably the only building in the world that has its own patented color - brown eiffel, which gives the tower a bronze tint. Before that, she changed several colors - she was yellow and red-brown and ocher. Recently, the tower is repainted every 7 years, and the whole procedure was carried out 19 times. For each painting, about 60 tons of paint are needed (as well as about 1.5 thousand brushes and 2 hectares of protective mesh), so that over time the tower still continues to gain weight. And not only in weight - due to new antennas, its height is gradually increasing: today it is equal to 324 m, and this is far from the limit.
In fact, the Eiffel Tower is not at all the same color as it may seem at first. It is painted in three different shades of bronze - from the darkest on the first level to the lighter on the third. This is done to make the tower look more harmonious against the sky.
Everyone can buy a piece of the Eiffel Tower, and it's not about the souvenirs with her image, but about the original one - from the time of Gustave Eiffel “The Iron Lady” belongs to a private company, and its shares are traded on the stock exchange.
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