The selection menu of The Eiffel Tower
This thumbnail menu gives you the opportunity to make a free choice out of a selection of our finest pictures of the Tour Eiffel, one of the most important monuments and landmarks of the French capital Paris. When you click on the selected thumbnails below you will see the photo you have chosen in a larger size. Please keep in mind that we did not put the photos in the highest quality on our website, because we want to prevent very long downloading times. The photos are all stored in an acceptable JPEG format in order to find a compromise between the downloading time and the quality of the picture.
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The above selected thumbnails are a selection of our nicest photos taken by our private photographer during his many visits to the French metropolitan Paris. This selection contains pictures of the famous Eiffel Tower in all its beauty and appearing forms that were taken through these years. Even now we are still busy extending our Eiffel Tower collection, owning to our visitors' questions or to our own interest. Like all other sections we will also make sure to update this section whenever we have some new interesting photo material.
You can read here the little history of the Eiffel Tower, which has become the symbol of Paris, was originally built for the "1889 Exposition Universelle" (Universal Exhibition). Designed by the engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) the Tour Eiffel, with a height of 320 meters and a weight of approximately 10,000 tones, faced a massive opposition from lots of Paris literary and artistic elite. This 15,000 pieces of metal, connected with almost 2.5 million rivets counting, by photographers all over the world attracted masterpiece, was the world tallest building until 1931, at that time the New York Empire State Building was completed. In 1909 the tower was almost torn down, but for the practical reason of being a good platform for transmitting antennas needed for the new science of radiotelegraphy, the Tour Eiffel was spared.