Eiffel Tower Top Floor Apartment

This parisian apartment may not have all of the chic amenities you d expect from a french pied a tierre but it definitely has the best view.

Eiffel tower top floor apartment.

Gustave eiffel designed a private apartment for himself at the top of the parisian landmark and now a second one will be available on the first floor by caitlin morto n and melissa minto n may. When the tower first opened the elevators weren t actually operational yet and the 30 000 visitors of the world s fair had to climb 1 710 steps to reach the top. At that point in time it was the highest apartment in the world and offered a view of paris which was almost unimaginable. Discover gustave eiffel s secret apartment in paris france.

When the eiffel tower opened in 1889 to much wonder and acclaim designer gustave eiffel soake. A small cannon is fired from the eiffel tower at noon the whole of paris telling the time by the blast picture. And here s gustave eiffel himself near the summit of his tower in 1889. The city of lights as seen from top of the eiffel tower.

Constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 world s fair it was initially criticised by some of france s leading artists and. High atop the eiffel tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of paris jealous. With the completion of eiffel tower in 1889 it was revealed that gustave eiffel had added a secret apartment on top of the eiffel tower. The eiffel tower ˈ aɪ f əl eye fəl.

But of course the eiffel tower wasn t just a hollow tower with a great view. While eiffel tower visitors were previously denied access to the apartment what monsieur eiffel would have wanted no doubt vacation rental site homeaway made a second tower apartment more.