Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower (Tue) is a 330 m high, self-supporting tower with antennas located in Paris, at the northwest end of the Champ-de-Mars park on the banks of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement. Its official address is 5 avenue Anatole-France. Built in two years by Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution, and originally named "300 meter tower", it became the symbol of the French capital and a major tourist site: it is the fourth most visited French cultural site in 2016, with 5.9 million visitors.

Since its opening to the public, it has welcomed more than 300 million visitors. Originally 312 metres high, the Eiffel Tower remained the highest monument in the world for forty years. The second level of the third floor, sometimes called the fourth floor, 279.1 metres away, is the highest observation platform accessible to the public in the European Union and the second highest in Europe, behind the Ostankino tower in Moscow culminating at 337 metres.

The height of the tower was several...