The Other Spot

Paris, the city of love, grand boulevards, the steps along the Seine, the romanticism made monument, the dinners by candlelight, the bohemian life in Montmartre … Paris, the city where the Eiffel Tower is the symbol of love.

August 31, 1889. To mark the celebration of the Universal Exhibition in the City of Light, opens a huge metal tower, designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel, who caused a major social rejection in Parisian society of the late nineteenth century. So great was the commotion that “mass of iron” which in 1900 was about to be dismantled. However, its height and location appropriate time to place that facilitated communication antennas, at that time, the work of the French Navy. The original height of 312 meters, reached the 324 with the installation of these electronic devices on top, thanks to this height, the Eiffel Tower became the tallest building in the world until in 1931 the Empire State Building will took the job.

Interestingly, the Eiffel Tower is 15 cm. higher in the days of strong heat, due to metal expansion. On windy days you notice a small oscillation, although it does not move more than 12 cm. And the Eiffel Tower weight is 10,100 tons and 40 tons of paint that is renewed every four years and two and a half million rivets.

The Eiffel Tower has always been famous for being the source of inspiration not only to painters and writers, but also numerous acrobats who have tried the strangest incidents, from which attempted to lower the bike, which use it to parachuting from the top. But the most celebrated case was that of a tailor in Paris, Reisfeldt, with a wing suit was launched into space from the point trying to plan. The autopsy determined that he died before reaching the ground by a heart infarction.

First level

Three levels have visited the tower. At the first level, far from land in 57 feet, is reachable by elevator or climb 360 steps. It is a small historical museum in which projections can be seen from the visits to the tower of Charles Chaplin to Hitler during the Second World War. There is also here the Altitude 95 restaurant where we enjoy a wonderful and romantic dinner with spectacular views of the Seine and the Trocadero.

Second level

“Only” one has to climb 700 steps from the previous level, or take the elevator. A 115 m. soil, there is the Restaurant Jules Verne, one of the best in Paris.

Third level

In the dome, to 274 m. soil. Cleared in days you can get to see up to 72 km. away. Up to this point now costs 11.50 euros. 1652 steps in total, although the climb up the stairs from the second to the third level is prohibited.

But if from the top we can enjoy a superb view of all Paris, from his feet, we can also enjoy a romantic walk that will take us from the Trocadero and its sources, to the very Champs Elysees and the Arc Triumph, or, at his back, Champs de Mars, where the young Parisian rests while sunbathing in summer hot days. In our way, quiet, you will find dozens of couples posing in instant love this sculpture stolen from iron, stately and gallant. A famous figure in the night wears their finest when hundreds of light bulbs, especially when the first ten minutes of each hour, flashing, blinking proud.