So really easy title no need for more explanations. I have written couple posts on the Tour Eiffel in my blog but have found several pictures of different years not yet in, and feel they deserve to be shown for the memories. Let me tell you about this symbol of France, the tour Eiffel of Paris, part I !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.
Let me tell you folks, I came here first in 1990 and had gone regularly until 2005 and stop. However, my office as of before the virus was very near and i needed to pass by it walking every month! Nice views anyway and memories of older family visits. It is now completely secure place with wagons for security personnel in front, not a nice environment to climb up me think. Hope you enjoy the new photos in my blog of my walking tours, some goes back to 2011 to 2017! Not going to go deep in the text as plenty already written in previous posts, but for ease of reading for new readers here is some briefs on the Tour Eiffel!
The Tour Eiffel was built in less than two years in the gardens of the Champ de Mars on the banks of the Seine river. It was intended to crown the Universal Exhibition of 1889. High of 317 meters its structure is in puddled iron with no less than 18,000 metal parts and 2,500,000 thousand rivets make it up. A very brief description of it has it on the 1st floor of 57 meters high, a restaurant, bar, and lounge. On the 2nd floor of 115 meters high, a restaurant, bar,and tea room. On the final 3rd floor of 214 meters high, you have wonderful far views of Paris. A panorama up to 90 km from Paris on a clear day!!!
At the end of the concession in 1909, it was saved thanks to its military and then civilian reconversion with the installation of a radio transmitter! Lucky us!. Since its creation, it has been repainted seventeen times or once every seven years. Likewise, the hues have changed several times; initially reddish-brown, then yellow ochre and now bronze. It takes sixty tons of paint to cover it and, in all, 25 painters are at work for over a year. The bust of Gustave Eiffel was made by Antoine Bourdelle.
The best place to admire it in all its splendor is the Trocadéro terrace facing it. One way to save a lot of the queues at the Eiffel Tower is to buy tickets in advance. You get there by Metro: Trocadéro, lines 6 and 9; Ecole Militaire, line 8. Bus: lines 42, 69, 72, 82 and 87. RER line C at Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel.
Today, the Tour Eiffel is a symbol of France to the world and window of Paris!
One great lawn garden to admire it and even host picnics as well as many events like New Year’s celebration is the Champ de Mars. It is dedicated to this warrior god and place of manoeuvre for military troops until the end of the 19C. It is a large open garden with a length of 780 meters, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, which begins at the edge from the Seine river to the Pont d’Iéna to end at the Ecole Militaire west facade. Wonderful place indeed.
The official Tour Eiffel: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en
The official Paris tourist office on the Tour Eiffel: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/culture/la-tour-eiffel-p3486
The official Île de France region tourist office on the tour Eiffel: https://www.visitparisregion.com/en/eiffel-tower
And there you go another dandy in my eternal Paris always something to see and do, never ending like all eternal things in life. And Paris is worth living for it! I will leave you with the new blog pictures,enjoy them as I do. Again,hope you enjoy this post on the tour Eiffel of Paris, part I !!! as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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I have been to the top of that tower 3 times and every time it was cloudy with no real views.
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Oh is a heads or tails alright. I had great views before but not worth the visit now, too many better monuments to see in the most beautiful city in the world!!
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