Tour Eiffel

Eiffel Tower

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Architectural postcard illustration of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
An architectural postcard from the Living Atlas.

A 330-meter wrought-iron lattice tower built by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World's Fair, repainted every seven years.

Why Atlas chose this place

Eighteen thousand iron parts in perfect lattice — the world's most famous piece of structural drawing, made real.

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