This year marks the 135th anniversary of the beginning of the Eiffel Tower’s building. As of today, the Parisian monument is the fourth most visited around the world: only the Notre Dame Cathedral (located in Paris as well), the Chinese Great Wall and the Sydney Opera House are able to overcome it in terms of number of annual visitors. To be clearer, many hyper-iconic monuments like Rome’s Coliseum, Washington’s Lincoln Memorial and New York’s Statue of Liberty, are ranked lower than it. This is an utterly significant achievement, especially if we consider that the Eiffel Tower is one of the youngest monuments of Europe, and probably the most important symbol of the Contemporary Era: nonetheless, from many decades thongs of tourists are crowding the ticket offices to get the best Eiffel Tower tickets.Built between 1887 and 1889, the Eiffel Tower became immediately one of the symbol of modernity, in a historical context where the whole Western civilization was projected into a fast, sometimes frenzied modernization process. An era when everything seemed possible and the future appeared bright and basically without borders or limits: it is no coincidence that science fiction as a literary genre was born exactly during those years.From an architectonical point of view, the face of the most important European cities started to change at an incredibly rapid pace (and Paris was probably the epitome of this drive for change): new buildings – and new monuments as well – started to appear on many cities’ map. The Eiffel Tower was built exactly to celebrate the modernity, and the innovations that it was about to bring: new materials (iron instead of stones, sand and quicklime) and new techniques started to replace the most obsolete ones, and even the average construction time was significantly reduced.
Today the Eiffel Tower has one of the world’s most efficient ticketing systems, conceived to be fast and intuitive. A tourist can buy a ticket to visit the tower both on location and online: this latter option allows the visitors to avoid cues and decide autonomously what kind of visit they want to experience. In fact, the Eiffel Tower offers many tourists packages, and each one of them features different options: a visitor can even book in advance a lunch or a dinner (even a romantic one) at one of the Tower’s restaurants.
Among the many providers, Paris City Visions offers a series of tickets and packages (not only for the Eiffel Tower, but also for the other top venues in the French capital) able to satisfy any kind of needs and/or requests. Besides the most conventional services (guided tours, priority access, lunch), on the company’s website you can book a dinner during a Seine cruise, a visit at the Louvre Museum or a show at the Moulin Rouge, at very competitive prices (a detail that shouldn’t be neglected). These are probably the most fulfilling experiences that Paris can offer right now, especially during the autumn-winter season, when the city lights take on an almost magical look, similar to the one depicted in dozens of films. So, if you want to find yourself surrounded by an atmosphere worthy of a sequence from Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, you just have to book your ticket.
