Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

A Famous Structure The Eiffel Tower is a structure that reaches up to the sky! The tower is famous. People around the world know about it. Almost seven million people visit the tower each year.

High and Mighty The Eiffel Tower is made of four long beams of metal. At the bottom, the beams are the four legs of the tower. The beams curve up and meet at the top. When the Eiffel Tower was built, it was the tallest structure in the world.

City on the Seine The Eiffel Tower is in Paris, which is the capital of France. The tower is much taller than other structures in Paris. It is at one end of a large park. The Seine (SEN) River flows next to the tower. Many museums, gardens, and ponds are nearby.

A Tower of Strength Gustave Eiffel and three other men worked together on the idea for the Eiffel Tower. A contest was held to get ideas for a special structure for the 1889 World's Fair. The men won the contest. It took many workers about two years to build the tower.

The Eiffel Tower was built out of more than eighteen thousand pieces of iron. Iron is a type of metal. Mr. Eiffel wanted to prove that metal is as strong as stone.