This is no easy feat: It requires 60 tons of paint, 1,500 brushes, and a team of 25 painters to give the Eiffel Tower a touch-up. 11. There's an apartment on the third floor. It was originally ...

The Eiffel Tower was never intended to stand over the ... souvenir shops, history and art displays, an outdoor pavilion, the ...

It took 38 tons of red paint to coat the entire bridge ... That’s half as high as the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel's tremendous success with the Garabit Viaduct, and later with the framework ...

The radical cast-iron tower was built for the 1889 World Fair and the centenary of the 1789 Revolution by engineer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel made use of new technology that was already popular in ...