What you need to know before visiting the Eiffel Tower: 10 unusual facts and anecdotes on the Lady of Fer!
The most easily recognizable attraction and architecture of Paris, and symbol of the France has some anecdotes that may not be ignored. From the beginning of its construction in 1887 to its inauguration in 1889, then over the past 120 years, it has occurred unusual facts, or events that you have forgotten, to which you will think when you (re) go through the Eiffel Tower .
1. When this huge tower was inaugurated in 1889, it became the highest structure on earth. It was only in 1930 that another skyscraper named “Chrysler”, in New York, the 18-metre pass. However, if you add the length of its 24-metre antenna to the height of the Eiffel Tower, the “Chrysler” remains below. Today, the Eiffel Tower is no longer among the highest towers in the world, but remains one of the highest towers in France.
2. The Eiffel Tower is painted in 3 different shades of colours. The darkest tone at the base and the brightest to the top. It takes 60 tons of paint every 7 years to completely paint the Eiffel Tower.
3. On the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower is a gourmet restaurant 1 star Michelin held by Alain Ducasse.
4. On February 4, 1912, the Austrian French tailor Franz Reichelt killed himself in jumping from the Eiffel Tower to test his parachute suit. Here's the video:
5. Before the capitulation of Paris to the Germans during the Second World War, the French sabotaged the access to the Eiffel Tower by blocking the lifts not that enemies took advantage of the view. But Hitler was not so lazy that this to climb up the tower by the stairs. The lifts were repaired in 1944, and all the Allied soldiers were allowed to go freely to the top.
6. Small copies of the Eiffel Tower exist in different parts of the world: many are in the United States as in Las Vegas, or in China in Hangzhou and Shenzhen, but still in Gómez Palacio in Mexico, in Slobozia in Romania, in Parij in Russia, in Sucre in Bolivia, in Brussels in Belgium, in Inwałd and Krakow in Poland, in Montmartre in Canada, in Torret
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7. Gustave Eiffel has burned the names of 72 leading French engineers, scientists and mathematicians of the time.
8. In the 1925-1934s, the French car manufacturer Citroën used the four corners of the tower as an advertising medium. It was the greatest publicity at the time.
9. Despite the height, only one person died accidentally during the construction of the tower.
10. Thomas Edison visited the Eiffel Tower and was extremely impressed by it. He wrote in the book of gold: “To Mr. Eiffel, an engineer, builder of great and extraordinary creations of modern engineering, a man who has the greatest respect and admiration for all engineers, including the greatest of them, the Good God. Thomas A. Edison."
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