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The Eiffel Tower, located on the banks of the Seine in Paris France, is one of the Wonders of the World and is the most-visited paid monument in the world with 7 million people ascending the tower each year. The tower is 1,063 ft tall and consists of 18,000 pieces of puddled iron. It was manufactured by Gustave Eiffel, engineer and famous entrepreneur who designed this building on the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of the French Revolution and the Universal Exhibition of Paris. Construction began in 1887 and it took just over two years to build,