السبت، 3 مارس 2012

Tourism in the Eiffel Tower / Paris

Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel) tower is a metal found in Champs de Mars (Square March), near the River Seine carry his name from the designer Gustave Eiffel, was one of the landmarks famous in Europe due to the number of visitors who topped six million visitors a year (in , 2005).
 
Gustave Eiffel designed the tower to be a distinctive gateway to the international fair 1889 in Paris, which was approved centennial of the French Revolution, where the French showed the technical capacity at the time. The total cost of building the tower construction of about 7,800,000 francs gold French, many of which were recovered from the ticket sales the show.
 
In 1964 the tower was registered on the list of historic monuments of the city of Paris
Began construction in January 26, 1887, and lasted for 26 months with the participation of approximately 50 engineers and 300 workers; where it was in the first five months building the foundations while took to build the tower one and twenty months following the end of all business in the March 31, 1889. The tower was officially opened on May 6, 1889

 The period in which the construction 1887-1889 standard, and given the tools available in that era and compare it with the precision and magnitude that characterized this building.
Tower consists of a piece of iron 18.038 and 2.5 million total nail and weighs 10.100 tons, which is based on the four columns made ​​up with each other base dimensions of 125 * 125 meters of any area of ​​15.625 square meters
 
There are stairs in the tower containing 1.665 degrees, but generally only allowed to use until the second round. Therefore, reaching the summit is by using one of the elevators in this role. The Haman Almusaadan about 100 flights daily to and from the summit; an average trip every 8 minutes

Total height of the tower at the time construction 300 meters (984 feet), then add the flag in the same year, bringing the height to 312 meters (1024 feet), but after the addition of broadcast antenna on top, the total height of the tower 324 meters (1063 feet), is considered one of the tallest towers in the world

Levels of the tower
· First floor: 57.63 meters (189 feet)
· Second floor: 115.75 meters (380 feet)
· Third round: 276.13 meters (98,181,806 feet)
· Overall height (antenna): 324 meters (2009 feet)
Due to the strength and height of the tower has opened the door to a lot of potential uses for the tower. The variety of these uses in the following

Broadcast
At the beginning of 1906 witnessed the first attempts to use it in broadcasting, he entered the service actually in 1920.
As well as the tower saw the first attempts to use in the broadcast television from 1921 to 1935, but the service has already started since 1957.
Since the completion of this construction, the kiss of many scientists, engineers and researchers to use it in a different experiences, whether they are related to the weather or the free fall of objects or monitoring and other uses. In 1909, wind tunnel was built in order to do some research

There are two restaurants in the tower provide their services to visitors and offers a panoramic view of the city of Paris, namely:
· First floor: a restaurant "Altitude 95"
· Second floor: a restaurant "Le Jules Verne" (with its own elevator in the southern corner of the tower)
From the beginning, put Gustave Eiffel in the account that is used for artificial lighting to illuminate the tower, where it was installed the first lighting system on the occasion of the International Exhibition in 1899. The tower has gone through all kinds of illuminations throughout its history starting from the jazz and even electricity. In 2000 and to celebrate the new millennium, has been installed an integrated system of lighting contains:
· 20,000 LED lighting (by 5,000 in each side).
· 40 km from the electrodes.
· 40,000 link Electrical and 80,000 other metal parts (weighing about 60 tons).
· 230 for plates and electrical boxes.
· 10,000 m 2 of electrical safety nets.
· 120 kilometers watts of energy.

In order to maintain the tower from rust, needs to process maintenance and repainting regularly. This process is done periodically every 7 years, where the consumption of 50 tons of paint, and take 15 months to complete fully. Carry out this process manually through 25 using the factor 1.500 coach paint brush.
Since its inception in 1889 until 2003, the tower over a total of 18 operations coating, was the last of which took place in the period between December 2001 and July 2003, then decided that the process is the nineteenth ff as follows:
· Every 5 years: paint the tower of the first round to the top.
· Every 10 years: paint the entire tower.

 Back right of ownership the tower to the municipality of Paris; where a company specialized management of the tower to its advantage, and generates this on the city of Paris, huge amounts of money per year as paid visitors to the Eiffel Tower adults 10.70 euro - in 2005 - compared to a ticket led by the top of the tower, and is therefore of the highest returns in the world

I expect Gustav Eiffel to visit the tower every year 500 thousand visitors but the reality exceeded expectation; the visitors to the tower in the first year it opened in 1889 close to 2 million visitors, while the figure jumped in 2005 to 6 million, and in 2002 received the Tower Visitor No. 200 000 000 since created.
 
Thus it is top of the tower can be seen across Paris in a wonderful panoramic image, you can either Mtamah can be a meal appetite, and night lights views and picturesque features of the city of Paris. All of this has to be at the top of the Eiffel Tower tourist attractions throughout the European contracts

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