New coat for Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower is going to celebrate 120th birthday and its keeper is preparing a present for tower. Nowdays this present isn´t still secret – it is new brown coat. Necessary modifications to realize this idea will be 18 months in lenght. It will take times but attraction won´t be closed – it will be still open to the public. The tower´s keeper informed that working team will use about 60 tonnes of ecological colour in three shades of brown. This colour was choosed in order to tower goes together with Parisian surroundings. Eiffel Tower is restored every seven years and this new painting will be the nineteenth in order. The tower is 324 metres in high and because of 6 milions tourists is every year the most visited attraction in the world.
In the past the tower had different coats - reddish brown, ochre brown, yellow, tawny or dark-red. The brown coat has been dressed since 1968. The tower is work of Gustav Eiffel who built it up in 1889 for world exhibition in Paris. At first people considered it as abominable and this work had to be dismantled. Later offices decided to use it as radio transmitter and continues as an attraction. In occasion of 120th birthday Paris is preparing grandiose celebrations including exhibition in May and concerts and fireworks in June.
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