It was designed................for a World's Fair.............like the one in Knoxville, TN in 1982............the Sunsphere i visited as an 11 year old kid is still there............when i was homeless and making my way to DC in 2013........


The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl ˈtaʊər/ eye-fəl towr; French: tour Eiffel [tuʁ‿ɛfɛl]  listen) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair