What are the dimensions of the tower?
The tower is 324 metres tall today, which is about 108 stories. Originally, it had no television tower (there wasn’t much television in 1889), and so it was 12 metres shorter. The levels accessible to the public are at heights of 57.63 metres, or 19 stories; 115.73 metres, or 38 stories; and 273 metres, or 89 stories. From the summit, you can see as far away as Chartres (to the southwest) on a clear day, although days that clear are rare in Paris, thanks to weather and pollution. It is by far the highest structure in Paris; contrary to what some claim, the Montparnasse Tower, is only a little over half the height of the Eiffel Tower. Although the Eiffel Tower was built over a century ago, only about two dozen structures in the world are taller than it today. Most of them are in the Far East, which is currently enjoying a fad for building tall skyscrapers similar to that of the U.S. in decades past. One of the things that makes the Eiffel Tower unique, however, is that it’s an open latt
