2006-07-04 12:38:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The Eiffel tower was built as the entrance arch for the World's Fair.
Originally the tower only had a 20 year permit (part of the contest rules were that the tower must be easily dismantled), but it became very useful for communications that they let it stay past 20 years. Eventually it just became the symbol of Paris, and a top tourism destination that the public, which originally hated it, decided that Paris would not be the same without it.
2006-07-04 12:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by James R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Eiffel Tower was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Try the following link to learn how, why, and by whom it was built.
2006-07-04 12:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by just♪wondering 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Built for the worlds fair
2006-07-04 13:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by wrxsoldier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was built as the centrepiece of a world's fair held in 1889, the Exposition Universelle, which was held to celebrate the centenary of the French revolution.
2006-07-04 12:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the World's Fair
2006-07-04 12:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For an Exhibition. They used to have them a lot. Countries would throw up a pavilion and other stuff and exhibit goods and technologies, etc. World Fairs and like that. They seem to have stopped doing that.
2006-07-04 12:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A French engineer and bridge builder named Gustave Eiffel. It grow to be designed for an exposition, and till now each thing, human beings had to take it down, reason they concept it did no longer look reliable!
2016-12-14 04:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was in honor of a water extraction process that involves a tower and rudimentary pump which was a french invention
2006-07-04 13:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by Book of Changes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for the world fair in Paris, in the 1899...
people thought it was a crazy monument, and that Paris would look ugly with that bizarre metal structure.....
now look at it....... It's the symbol of Paris!!!
2006-07-04 12:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by angiefarina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's this really cool website I came across called google. You should check it out.
2006-07-04 12:42:01 · answer #10 · answered by AnswerBlaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋