Eiffel Tower Day 2025 is on Monday, March 31, 2025: what time and day does the eiffel tower glitter at night?!?
Monday, March 31, 2025 is Eiffel Tower Day 2025. Eiffel Tower Skip the long Eiffel Tower lines! Book dinner, lunch or just a visit.
Eiffel Tower Day is really a holiday that's about honoring the great monument that stands happily within the town of lights. Your day marks the conclusion from the Eiffel Tower in 1889, taking 24 months, 2 several weeks and five days as a whole to construct. It had been built for that Worldwide Exhibition of Paris, throughout the 100th anniversary from the French Revolution, and was named following the principal engineer, Gustave Eiffel. Celebrate this legendary day by traveling to the historic landmark and also have a bite in the Le 58 Tour Eiffel Restaurant. For those who are elsewhere on the planet, you will find lots of methods to celebrate. Put on clothes or jewellery which include the Eiffel Tower, bake a tasty Eiffel Tower cake and enable buddies and family to admire and revel in it, or throw a have a picnic party with French flags and goodies to obtain everybody within the spirit during the day.
Tour Eiffel glitters every hour after sunset, and it last 5 minutes.
The Tour Eiffel itself is lit only untill 1AM or 2AM so plan to be there before that time
(you can also take nice pictures bu night even if it doesn't glitter)
the best spot to see it glitter is either Trocadero where you can view the tower from a higher point of view (approx 1st level), but where you are farther, or from the Champ de Mars, where you can be closer, but on the same level that the tower itself.
For pictures where the tower doesn't glitter Champ de mars is Definitely the best spot
If you want to walk from one point to another, count 5-10 minutes depending on how fast you walk
(I'd rather go from Trocadero to the champ de mars as you only need to walk down the stairs... and not up!)
A good spot is also on the pont de Bir Hakeim (look for 48.855736,2.287838 on google maps)
Some people do wedding/honey moon pictures there
Who built the Eiffel Tower?
By Eiffel in this way:
The assembly of the supports began on July 1, 1887 and was completed twenty-two months later.
All the elements were prepared in Eiffel’s factory located at Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris. Each of the 18,000 pieces used to construct the Tower were specifically designed and calculated, traced out to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre and then put together forming new pieces around five metres each. A team of constructors, who had worked on the great metal viaduct projects, were responsible for the 150 to 300 workers on site assembling this gigantic erector set.
First the pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts, later to be replaced one by one with thermally assembled rivets, which contracted during cooling thus ensuring a very tight fit.
A team of four men was needed for each rivet assembled: one to heat it up, another to hold it in place, a third to shape the head and a fourth to beat it with a sledgehammer. Only a third of the 2,500,000 rivets used in the construction of the Tower were inserted directly on site.
Each corner edge rests on its own supporting block, applying to it a pressure of 3 to 4 kilograms per square centimetre, and each block is joined to the others by walls. On the Seine side of the construction, the builders used watertight metal caissons and injected compressed air, so that they were able to work below the level of the water.
The tower was assembled using wooden scaffolding and small steam cranes mounted onto the tower itself.
The assembly of the first level was achieved by the use of twelve temporary wooden scaffolds, 30 metres high, and four larger scaffolds of 40 metres each. "Sand boxes" and hydraulic jacks - replaced after use by permanent wedges - allowed the metal girders to be positioned to an accuracy of one millimetre.
On December 7, 1887, the joining of the major girders up to the first level was completed.
The pieces were hauled up by steam cranes, which themselves climbed up the Tower as they went along using the runners to be used for the Tower's lifts.
Installing public elevators on the Tower raised many technical questions, since there had been no previous experience in elevators climbing to such heights and with such loads; the slanting tracks with various angles further complicated the problems.
The original machines in the West and East piers (up to the first floor only) were provided by the French company Roux Combaluzier Lepape, using hydraulically powered double looped chains and rollers in side guides. Their poor performance led to their removal. They were replaced in 1897 and 1899 by the Fives-Lille machinery, relying on hydraulic accumulators, 16-meter long main pistons, cable loops and manual controls. They were a success, steadfastly lifting the tourists up to the second floor until the late eighties. They were then upgraded to conform to the present day regulations: the old machinery still provides the counterweight power for the dead weights, while the variable parts of the loads were driven by modern high pressure oil pumps and motors controlled by computers.
The original American elevators by Otis in the North and South piers took visitors up to the second floor in a double-decker cabin, using hydraulically powered cables. They were no match for the Fives-Lille units and were scrapped respectively in 1900 from the South pillar and shortly after 1912 from the North pillar, after a failed attempt to re-power it with an electric motor. The increasing amount of visitors during the late fifties led to the installation of large capacity machinery in the North pier in 1965. Manufactured by Schneider Creusot Loire and using the best engineering and electrical machineries available, it was upgraded in 1995 with new cabins and computer controls.
The South pier was rigged anew in 1983 with a small electrically driven elevator by Otis to take customers up to the Jules Verne Restaurant. In 1989, a four-ton service elevator was added (also by Otis) helping to relieve the main elevators of excessive trips up and down.
Built and engineered by Mr Edoux, it consisted of one huge cabin for 110 passengers or a maximum weight of 8 tons and was propped up midway between the second and third levels on the pistons of two vertical hydraulic jacks, 81 metres long. The counterbalancing cabin was latched onto a set of cables linking to the master cabin over the top sheaves. The trip was a seesaw affair during which visitors had to change cabins halfway up by walking along a narrow gangway with a rather impressive vertical downwards view.
The major drawback of this machine was the volume of liquid and proportional antifreeze additives necessary; it was closed to the public every year from November to March. After 93 years of wear and tear, it was replaced in 1982 with two electrically powered sets of two counterbalanced cabins, running all year round.
This also enabled to restructure the criss-cross beams between the second and third floor, allowing for two separate emergency staircases to replace the dangerous winding units that were there from the structure’s origin.
Can i go to eiffel tower, LV shop, notre dame in one day?
You can do it, but it depends on how much you want to enjoy each.
You could start at Notre Dame, walk inside and around (but probably not go up in the tower), and then walk to the Eiffel Tower, maybe even go up, all in a few hours. Then spend the rest of the day shopping (which if you're going to LV at all you probably love to do).
You're buying Louis Vuitton and you want a CHEAP place to stay? A three-star hotel (the only I've seen mentioned so far) would of course be more expensive than a one or two star hotel and any hotel near the Arc de Triomphe is probably going to be a bit more expensive. Basically, if you're really looking for cheap, you might as well get something near the Gare du Nord itself (it won't be fancy).
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