Eiffel Tower Top Floor Apartment

The eiffel tower has a secret apartment at the top complete with a eiffel3 jpg.

Eiffel tower top floor apartment.

This parisian apartment may not have all of the chic amenities you d expect from a french pied a tierre but it definitely has the best view. Constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 world s fair it was initially criticised by some of france s leading artists and. But of course the eiffel tower wasn t just a hollow tower with a great view. Gustave eiffel designed a private apartment for himself at the top of the parisian landmark and now a second one will be available on the first floor by caitlin morto n and melissa minto n may.

At that point in time it was the highest apartment in the world and offered a view of paris which was almost unimaginable. A small cannon is fired from the eiffel tower at noon the whole of paris telling the time by the blast picture. And here s gustave eiffel himself near the summit of his tower in 1889. When the tower first opened the elevators weren t actually operational yet and the 30 000 visitors of the world s fair had to climb 1 710 steps to reach the top.

When the eiffel tower opened in 1889 to much wonder and acclaim designer gustave eiffel soake. The city of lights as seen from top of the eiffel tower. Tour eiffel tuʁ ɛfɛl is a wrought iron lattice tower on the champ de mars in paris france it is named after the engineer gustave eiffel whose company designed and built the tower. With the completion of eiffel tower in 1889 it was revealed that gustave eiffel had added a secret apartment on top of the eiffel tower.

Is there really a secret apartment on top of the eiffel tower. While eiffel tower visitors were previously denied access to the apartment what monsieur eiffel would have wanted no doubt vacation rental site homeaway made a second tower apartment more.