Iron Icon

It stands 984 feet high. It is made of iron, with three platforms from where you can view the city at varying heights. It was built to show the world how powerful, how knowledgeable, how innovative France was. It was built in 1889.

It is truly incredible.

You don’t realize its size until you are there. You don’t expect how marvelous the architecture is until you see it up close.

It looks especially tall from the bathroom.

If you don’t have a reservation you could spend the whole day standing in line. But we had an early appointment and so bypassed everyone.

The elevator goes upwards in a sideways fashion but you don’t realize it when inside. We went to platform two. The third platform is much higher. Once you go up, look down and take a snapshot, there isn’t a lot more to do. So our visit, which lasted only about an hour, was plenty long enough.


Built for the World Exhibition, France had planned to tear it down afterward. But it became such an icon of the country they decided to keep it. Its architect was a genius. You can see that by how it is put together.

We are very happy to have been there.