Chapter 135: The Eiffel Tower

Professor Abner took everyone to eat French food, so that everyone was still unsatisfied, Professor Abner and Xia Yuxiang discussed that tomorrow we will take you to visit the attractions in Paris, France.

Everyone was full of expectations, Qu Lihua returned to the hotel and slept beautifully.

By the next day, everyone had assembled their teams.

"Let's start with the Eiffel Tower, a French landmark!"

"Okay, happy, we're looking forward to it!"

Professor Abner has already arranged the vehicle, everyone gets in the car, the driver drives to the Eiffel Tower, you can see it in the distance, Qu Lihua took out her mobile phone to take pictures, Meng Wenjie is also very happy.

Head Xia Yuxiang said, "Professor Abner, please introduce it to us!"

"Okay! I'm sure you've seen it on TV, and now you can see it more clearly when you stand in front of the Eiffel Tower!"

Standing on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, on the south bank of the Seine, the tower was completed in 1889 and was the tallest building in the world at the time.

"The Eiffel Tower is a world-famous building, one of the symbols of French culture, one of the landmarks of Paris, and the tallest building in Paris. ”

"This tower has experienced the vicissitudes of time, after a number of designers remodeled, with a stone pedestal to decorate the foot of the tower, with a monumental arch structure to connect the four tower columns and the first layer of the platform, each platform with a large glass wall hall, the top of the use of spherical modeling and other decorative techniques to brighten the structure. ”

In the subsequent designs, the engineers further refined some of the design ideas, such as the giant arch, and gave the tower a very character expression. ”

"The setting of the beams has been simplified and coordinated with the alignment of the optimized tower columns, so that the tower structure is more simple and simple, the form is more beautiful, and the momentum of the tower is stronger. ”

"And they were all discussed during the reconstruction, if it is the beams that simply link the four towers together, then the setting of the giant arch unifies the towers into the whole of the tower, and the curvilinear shape of the decorative arch is also in harmony with the curvilinear shape of the towers. ”

Qu Lihua asked, "Is there a part that will tilt?"

"Yes, part of the inclined tower column and the horizontal beam of the decorative arch also has a certain structural function, although the arch does not bear the vertical load transmitted downward by the tower column, but the connection between the tower column and the beam is strengthened, and the force flow between the beam and the inclined tower column under the action of horizontal load is smoother. ”

"As can be seen from the preliminary design drawings of the tower, the connection between the lower beam and the tower column also shows the idea of curve transition at the joint, but under the suggestion of the architect, through continuous optimization, the structure is more fully expressed, and the overall form is more unified. ”

"Will that fall?"

"The designers have re-strengthened, it will not fall for the time being, don't worry, many tourists like to come here to shoot, see the Eiffel Tower, you will go to France, it is a symbol of France. ”

Qu Lihua is very happy, this is her first time in France, she has been in China before, only in the country for business trips, rarely have the opportunity to go abroad, can really stand under this world-famous tower to take pictures, everything is new to her.

Man is really a very strange animal, and he doesn't like the familiar environment, and when you live in one place for a long time, you want to see other parts of the world, and imagine if people from other places will live another life?

This is a mystery, waiting for Qu Lihua to solve, she followed the head of Xia to the countries along the "Belt and Road" to investigate, only to find that the world is really big, no wonder there is a popular sentence in recent years, "The world is so big, I want to take a look!"

Yes, this is indeed Qu Lihua's voice now, she is thirty years old, she really wants to go around the world to see, see different scenery, see what different lives others live, and see what the world is like.

The French say that the Eiffel Tower is "the watchtower of the capital", and this is indeed the case, it has three observation towers, upper, middle and lower, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the same time, and the three observation towers have different views and bring different interests.

For more than a century, about 3 million people have climbed to the top of the tower every year to take in the breath of Paris.

The observation deck on the top floor is 274 meters above the ground, and it takes about an hour to climb the 1652 steps, but you can also use the elevator to climb it.

Climb high and overlook is to watch the scenery in the distance, Qu Lihua and everyone else, they like to watch the scenery in the distance, Xia Yuxiang told her, here is the best place to look far away, it will make people have such a feeling, noisy Paris suddenly quieted down, into a huge map, the avenues and alleys draw countless lines of different widths.

The whole of Paris is at your feet, and when you have a clear view during the day, you can see 60 kilometers away, and the middle observation deck is 115 meters above the ground, and you can see the best view from this level.

"Wow, that's beautiful!"

The pale yellow Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre in the shade of greenery, and the white Sacré-Coeur church in Montma are all clearly visible and colorful.

Professor Abner said, "We'll come back in the evening, it'll be even more beautiful here!"

"Really?" Qu Lihua was full of anticipation.

"Really, there are a lot of tourists at night, and everyone likes the scenery here, if you don't believe it, I'll take you to watch it again!"

Climb the tower in the evening, then see the night is picturesque, the lights are like brocade, the green reflects the shade of the trees, those street lamps that are intertwined like a net, really like a bead net after the rain, the grains are crystal clear.

Qu Lihua looked at this beautiful scenery and felt very beautiful, the flickering yellow light was full of dreams, which made people's mood very happy, and there was also a well-decorated panoramic restaurant on this floor, which was full of customers all year round.

The designer is well designed and thoughtful, and the observation deck on the lowest level is the largest and quite spacious, with various services such as a conference hall, a cinema hall, a restaurant, a shop, and a post office.

In the crowd of people, it is like being in the middle of the city, and forget that it is high in the sky after all.

The Palais de Charlotte with its splashing fountain to the north, the Seine River flowing quietly at the foot of the tower, the large lawn of the Champ de Mars to the south and the old buildings of the Aédémière de France make for an unforgettable landscape.

Professor Abner told everyone that the Eiffel Tower was originally built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the victory of the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower was a symbol of the industrial revolution that swept the world at that time, it is a technical masterpiece in the history of world architecture, once held the record of the world's tallest building, and then gradually became a tourist attraction, mainly used for tourists to visit, it shows the French whimsical romanticism, artistic taste, innovation and sense of humor.

"Nowadays, there is a huge stream of tourists from all over the world, and the ticket revenue alone is quite considerable, not to mention the income from the surrounding catering and tourism industries, and everyone likes to come here to take pictures and take pictures, and the business is really booming!" said Professor Abner.

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