How well do you know the Eiffel Tower? The Eiffel Tower might be one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, but these Eiffel Tower facts reveal just how unexpected its history really is.
On a typical day in Paris, tourists and Parisians speckle the Champ de Mars, a swath of grassy lawn extending under the Eiffel Tower. When there’s cause to celebrate—the first Bastille day in 1790 or ...
The unions claim the city is underestimating maintenance costs. Tourists looking to explore Paris' most famous landmark were turned away from the Eiffel Tower on Monday as workers went on strike over ...
To boost security, the Eiffel Tower will soon be surrounded by glass walls. Paris -- The Eiffel Tower will soon be surrounded with bulletproof glass walls to protect ...
The world-renowned Eiffel Tower in Paris shut its doors on locals and international tourists on Thursday amid a nationwide strike. As crowds of protesters marched from Place d’Italie toward the Eiffel ...
The Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous buildings in the world today, was once the tallest structure ever built too. At the time of its completion in 1889, its 984 feet (or 300 meters) far surpassed ...
Two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, drafted the first version in 1884. At first, Eiffel wasn’t impressed by their sketches—he thought they looked too plain. But once ...