Chapter 163: The Eiffel Tower
After the tour guide led the golden autumn tour group to the entrance of the Eiffel Tower, it was customary to go to the ticket window alone to buy tickets.
Taking advantage of this gap, Liping hurriedly ran to the tour guide and whispered to her:
"Xiao Luo, hello! My wife is feeling tired today and is resting in the car. You can buy one less ticket. ”
"What do you say? Are you feeling tired? He's—can't he's, he's sick, right? ”
Listening to Liping's dreams feel tired, the tour guide Xiao Luo was afraid that someone in the tour group would get sick, so she asked Liping with obvious worry.
"No, I won't get sick. It may be that he was tired all day yesterday and got up early today again, so he shouldn't have had a good rest in the past two days. Don't worry, he won't get sick. ”
Liping was embarrassed to say what Mengdu had done "hard" last night, so she vaguely explained to the tour guide, and at the same time, she also cast a grateful look at the tour guide.
"Oh, as long as you're healthy!"
The tour guide Xiao Luo nodded reassuringly, and then went to the window to buy tickets.
After a while, the tour guide returned to the tour group and handed out the tickets to everyone one by one.
After issuing the visit ticket, Xiao Luo specially told everyone:
"Please remember, before half past two in the afternoon, everyone must come back here to gather!"
After the explanation, the members of the tour group walked to the entrance of the Eiffel Tower in turn, followed the crowded crowd, and began to line up.
Taking advantage of the queue, Liping found that in a small shop on the left side of the entrance, there were materials about the Eiffel Tower for sale. So, she went to the store, where she bought a color foldout printed on coated paper, and then returned to the back of the line waiting to enter the Eiffel Tower, reading about the Eiffel Tower as she lined up.
Through the leaflet, Liping clearly understood that the Eiffel Tower stands on the banks of the Seine River in the center of Paris, with a height of more than 320 meters, which is taller than a 100-story building!
The Eiffel Tower has a total of 4 piers, all of which are poured with cement.
The tower is made of steel hollow structure, with more than 10,000 metal parts, connected by millions of rivets.
This tower is the world's first steel tower.
In terms of its height, it was the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion!
In 1884, in anticipation of the Universal Exhibition in Paris and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, the French government made a historic decision:
In the heart of Paris, a permanent monument is built.
After countless selections, the famous French architect Gustave Eiffel selected the design of the tower.
Therefore, after the completion of this tower, it was named after "Eiffel".
According to the information, Eiffel's design is very clever and very precise!
During the construction process of more than two years, there has never been any casualty accidents; Moreover, when assembling the components, every hole drilled was very accurately inserted and there were no mistakes.
The Eiffel Tower has three floors, built at 57.6 meters, 115.7 meters and 276.1 meters above the ground.
On each of the tower's three levels, there is a platform.
Thereinto:
The terraces on the first and second floors house restaurants and cafes;
The third platform is an observation deck for visitors to watch the cityscape.
From the base of the tower to the top of the tower, there are a total of 1792 steps.
Once at the top of the Eiffel Tower, visitors can enjoy the colorful and stunning views of the entire city of Paris.
In 1889, when more than 25 million visitors to the Paris Exposition climbed the tower with great novelty, they all called it the most attractive wonder in the world!
Because it not only reflects the world's architectural technical achievements at that time, but also embodies the most daring, progressive and advanced architectural art of Eiffel.
On the Eiffel Tower, a total of four elevators have been installed, each with a capacity of 100 people.
These four elevators can lift tens of thousands of visitors up to 115 meters in the air every day, allowing them to stand on the tower and look down on Paris.
After seeing the city, visitors can either take the elevator down the tower or walk down the 1,792 steps.
The World Expo of that year, because of the fame of the Eiffel Tower, had achieved great commercial success!
So much so that when the World Industry Exposition was held the following year, the host of the conference again chose Paris as the venue.
From that time, or rather from 1889, it was discovered that the overall layout of any city could be well understood by looking from afar.
Today is not bad, because the "Golden Autumn Tour" came relatively early, they did not queue up at the entrance of the tower for a long time, only about fifteen minutes later, the members of the Golden Autumn Group entered the elevator leading to the first platform of the tower.
It takes less than two minutes to take the elevator to the first platform.
In the blink of an eye, Liping and her group members have arrived at the first platform of the tower.
On the first platform, Liping browsed around the tower, and then took the elevator again with several group members, and soon came to the second platform 115 meters above the ground.
While still in the elevator, Liping listened to the passengers next to her say that looking around from the second floor of the platform, you can take in the best views of the city of Paris one by one.
So, after arriving at the second level of the platform, as soon as she got out of the elevator, Liping couldn't wait to walk along the corridor of the platform, in a clockwise direction, to see the beautiful cityscape of Paris as she walked.
Sure enough, when Liping moved from left to right along the platform on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, the most famous tourist attractions in Paris, such as the pale yellow Arc de Triomphe Tower, the Louvre Museum covered by greenery, the white Sacrécor Church of Montmar, the Place de la Concorde with the obelisk towering, the quaint Notre-Dame Cathedral, the graceful Seine River, including the "French Paris Springs Department Store" building that I visited yesterday, and some attractions that cannot be named, were all included in Liping's eyes.
It can be said that standing on the second platform of the Eiffel Tower, all the landmarks and beautiful landscapes of the city of Paris are clearly visible and colorful!
Being in such a landscape makes you feel like you're in a huge oil painting!
Ah, the great city of Paris, your view is so beautiful and so alluring!
It's a pity that such a magnificent scene, Mengdu didn't go up to the tower to feast his eyes, it's a pity!
While enjoying the scenery of Paris, Liping's mind flashed to her husband who had stayed in the car to sleep, and she shook her head.
"Hello, Miss Zhang!"
A familiar and unfamiliar voice suddenly reached Liping's ears.
It's -
Is anyone calling me?