EIFFEL TOWER BY CARLES DOMÈNECH

• My favorite building is Eiffiel Tower, is made of iron.

• The Eiffel Tower (French, Eiffel Tower) was built on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition held in Paris (France) in 1889. Was a landmark in the construction of iron. TheFrench engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designed the impressive cast iron lattice.

• When it was built was the world's tallest monument, 300 meters (if you add the radio antenna is located at the top, its height is 324 meters). When built, the tower weighed about 7300 tons, while today it is estimated his weight at more than 10,000 t (due to the museum, restaurants, stores and shops that hosts). The tower was scheduled to arrive at 350 meters, but the neighbors were alarmed by the threat that a building could fall so high, and marched about a change of plans.

• The maintenance of the tower includes applying fifty tons of paint every five years, in order to protect it from corrosion. Sometimes I change the color of paint (the tower in 2005 showed a brown hue). On the first floor, there are consoles that allow voting on the election of the future color of the structure. The original color of the tower was yellow, but today no trace remains of this color. It is considered that approximately half of the unions whose structure is made ​​for security reasons, namely, that the tower would remain standing but failed half of the connections between their parts. This was to ensure the reliability from the beginning of the tower, due to the fact that at the time of its construction, many Parisians were afraid it may fall causing a catastrophe. Between 1889 and 2004, the Eiffel Tower received more than 200 million visitors from within France and around the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most visited site on the planet.