Used in the past for many scientific experiments, it’s now used as a transmitter of radio and television programs. The height of the tower has been increased several times due to the installation of many antennas. The second level of the third floor, sometimes called the fourth floor, located at 279.11 meters, is the highest observation platform accessible to the public of the European Union, and the second one in Europe, behind the Ostankino tower in Moscow, culminating at 337 meters. Since opening to the public, it has welcomed more than 300 million visitors.Īt a height of 312 meters originally, the Eiffel tower has remained the highest monument in the world for 40 years. Built by Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889, and initially named “300 meters tower”, this monument has become the symbol of the French capital, and a leading touristic site : it’s the second most visited French cultural site in 2011, with 7.1 million visitors, including 75% of foreigners in 2011, the Notre-Dame-de-Paris cathedral being at the top of the open-access monuments with 13.6 million esteemed visitors but it remains the most visited paying monument in the world. Its official address is 5 avenue Anatole France. The Eiffel tower is a 324 meters-high walled iron tower (with antennas) located in Paris, at the northwestern end of the Champ-de-Mars park on the banks of the Seine river in the 7th arrondissement.
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