Another 991 steps lead to the top, but this section is not open to the public.ġ6. Most people take the lift, but you can climb the stairs from the bottom of the Eiffel Tower up to the 2nd floor, a total of 674 steps. If one were to superglue 100 20cm chopsticks together, and add them to the top of the Eiffel Tower's new antenna, it would reclaim the record.Ĥ.
The Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004, is also taller, at 343 metres, and the current record holders are a pair of transmitters, one in Allouis and another in Rosnay, that both reach 350 metres. It was the tallest structure in France until the construction of a military transmitter in the town of Saissac in 1973. As well as being 330 metres tall (including that lovely new antenna), it weighs approximately 10,100 tonnes.ģ. Completed on March 31, 1889, the tower was the world's tallest man-made structure for 41 years until the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York in 1930.Ģ. Here are few other things you might not have known about the iconic structure:ġ. It shrank by nine feet after a new antenna was installed in 1991, before further changes in 19. An antenna extended its extremity to 320.75m (1,052ft) in 1957. When it was completed in 1889, the tip of its flagpole was 312.27 metres (1,025ft) above the ground.
Interestingly (kind of), this is actually the fifth time the pinnacle height of the Eiffel Tower has changed. Thanks to a new antenna, the Parisian landmark is now 330 metres tall – six more than it was last week.
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