The Eiffel Tower (tour Eiffel, in French), initially named a 300-meter tour (300-meter tower), is a puddle-shaped iron structure designed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, endowed with a definitive look by architect Stephen Sauvestre and built by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris.
Located at the end of the Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine, this Parisian monument, symbol of France and its capital, is the tallest structure in the city and the monument that receives the most visited entrance in the world, with 7.1 millions of tourists every year. With a height of 300 meters, extended later with an antenna to 324 meters, the Eiffel Tower was the highest structure in the world for 41 years.
It was built in two years, two months and five days, and at the time generated some controversy among the artists of the time, who saw it as an iron monster. After finishing its function as part of the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900, it was used in tests of the French army with communication antennas, and nowadays it serves, in addition to tourist attraction, as a radio and television program station.
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