XX, Parisians showed their displeasure with Torre, who came to the point that the government gave the order for demolition. The 24 meters last fall to a radio antenna that was added much later. It was expected that the tower reaches 350 meters in height, but the neighbors were alarmed by the threat of a building as tall and built with little stones could fall off, and marched, causing a change in plans. When built, the tower weighs about 7,300 tons, while today it is estimated his weight at more than 10,000 (due to the museum, restaurants, stores and shops that hosts). When the monument was built was highest in the world, with 300 meters high (if the amount of radio antenna that is at its peak, its height is 324 meters). Only the will of the people stopped were broken. They agreed to build the tower, even though in principle they thought that they would have to disassemble once the exhibition. Following the refusal of the council of Barcelona, Eiffel, presented his project to those responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he erigirĂa a year later, in 1889. ![]() The French engineer Gustave Eiffel presented his first draft tower to those responsible for the City of Barcelona, to be built in this city on the occasion of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona (1888), but those responsible for the Barcelona city hall had seemed a strange building, And face, it does not fit into the city.
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