What calls the tension of millions of people, some day I hope to visit with God's favor.
It was built between 1886 and 1889, on the occasion of the Universal Exposition of the centenary of the French Revolution, designed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, endowed with its definitive appearance by the architect Stephen Sauvestre and was built by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Located at the end of the Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine, this Parisian monument, symbol of France and its capital.
It is the highest structure in the city, measuring 300 meters, its structure is made of puddled iron and is one of the most visited, with 7.1 million tourists every year.
The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world for 41 years. It was built in two years, two months and five days, and at the time generated some controversy among the artists of the time, who saw it as an iron monster.
Today it serves, as well as tourist attraction.
The structure did not have the support of the Parisians, to such an extent that it was agreed to dismantle it in 1900, which finally did not happen. For being one of the most solid structures, its goal was to create that the Eiffel Tower imposed on the imagination, has something unexpected, fantastic, that delights our smallness.
Genesis 11: 4
And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches the heavens, and let us make a famous name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.