Instagram The Eiffel Tower was built to be one the main attractions at the Paris World's Fair in 1889. That year, the World's Fair covered the entire Champ de Mars in Paris and its focus was the vast constructions in iron and steel that were the great industrial advancement of that time. At evening show it sparkles in its beautiful lights for about 5 minutes every hour. The tower has three levels - with restaurants on the first two floors and the observation deck on the third. Built initially as a temporary structure, the tower is at present amongst the most visited sites in the world and has turned into a celebrated example of a one-off style of architecture. First called the 300-meter Tower, it soon took the name of the man who built it, Gustave Eiffel. The Tower opened to the public the same day as the World's Fair, on May 15, 1889. Controversy over the Tower raged in the art world before and during its construction, but thanks to the audacity of its architec...