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The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris

The tower is named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel

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The Eiffel Tower is the tallest structure in Paris in addition to being the most recognized structure in the world

Gustave Eiffel originally planned to build it in Canada, for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but they rejected it

Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron, using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice Koechlin

The City had planned to tear it down, but the tower was proved valuable for communication purposes, so it was allowed to remain after the ending of the permit

First Floor: 57.63m

Second Floor: 115.75m

Third Floor: 276.13m

Total Height: 324m

Dimensions at base: 125m x 125m

The structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons

2 elevators that run approximately every 8 minutes, which is about 100 times per day

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1665 stairs from the ground to the top via the east pillar

Steps from the second floor to the top are closed to the public

The Tower cost approximately 7,800,000 gold francs in 1889

The Eiffel Tower has been completely repainted 17 times, which is an average of once every 7 years

It takes 15 months to paint the Tower using 60 tons of paint, 1,500 brushes and 5,000 sanding discs to cover 200,000m2

25 painters paint the structure using only brushes

Color: "Tour Eiffel brown" in three shades, with the lightest shade at the top and the darkest at the bottom

Gustave Eiffel engraved 72 names of French scientists, engineers and other notable people on the tower

6,719,200 people visited the tower in 2006

More than 229,623,812 people have visited the Eiffel Tower since its construction.

This makes the tower the most visited paid monument in the world per year.

Visitors may come see the Tower any day of the year since it is open all year round.

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On the groundAll visits begin at the ground floor entrances

On the first floorExhibits and displays, as well as shopping and dining

On the second floorWonderful place to take photos of Paris

At the topElevators take you up to provide glimpses of the architecture of the monument

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Puddle Iron: A special baking technique relying on swirling during the liquid phase to prevent the carbon and the impurities in the metal from associating.

Rivet: a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together.

Francs: the name of several currency units, most notably the French Franc, the currency of France until it adopted the euro in 2002.

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