Eiffel Tower

We arrived, it is very beautiful. Let's take a tour. Click on the picture and watch the virtual video 360°

The project for a 300-meter tower was born in preparation for the Universal Exposition of 1889. The two main engineers of the Eiffel company, Émile Nouguier, and Maurice Koechlin, in June 1884 had the idea of a very tall tower, designed as a large pillar with 4 columns separated at the base as legs that joined at the top, joined together by metal beams arranged at regular intervals. To make the project more acceptable to the public, Nouguier and Koechlin asked architect Stephen Sauvestre to work on the appearance of the project. The assembly of the legs began on July 1, 1887, and was completed twenty-one months later. All the elements were prepared at the Levallois-Perret factory near Paris, the headquarters of the Eiffel company. The tower was assembled with the help of wooden scaffolding and small steam cranes attached to the tower itself. It took only five months to build the foundations and twenty-one months to assemble the metal part of the tower. The assembly of the tower is a marvel of precision, as all the chroniclers of the time recognized.

The first excavations were carried out on January 26, 1887. On March 31, 1889, the construction of the tower was completed in record time (2 years, 2 months, and 5 days), which was considered a true technical feat.

Ok, I think we all are hungry. Let’s go to eat something in a restaurant.