Eiffel Tower
Named after engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower—*Tour Eiffel*, locally “La dame de fer” or “Iron Lady”—rises as a steel lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Its company designed and built it from 1887 to 1889, and it was completed on 31 March 1889, timed as the centrepiece of the 1889 World’s Fair marking the centennial of the French Revolution. Although critics—among them prominent artists and intellectuals—objected to its design at the time, the structure quickly became a lasting symbol of France. At 330 metres tall, the tower’s square base measures 125 metres on each side, and during construction it overtook the Washington Monument, holding the world’s tallest human-made title for 41 years. A broadcasting aerial added in 1957 made it taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres. The tower was classed a monument historique in 1964 and became part of UNESCO’s “Paris, Banks of the Seine” in 1991. …
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