The Eiffel Tower — aka la Tour Eiffel — has long been one of the world's most recognizable landmarks, symbolizing the romance ...

a fifth-generation descendant of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer-turned-businessman who built the tower, Bloomberg got a tour and gained insight into facts (and secrets) you never knew to ask about. It ...

When the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated at the 1889 Paris Exposition, it was derided by some of the city’s leading artists as useless, monstrous and barbaric. By objective measures it was the ...

A model of the Eiffel Tower has been officially deemed the world's tallest matchstick building a day after being ruled out by Guinness World Records (GWR). The 7.19m (23ft) tower had been ...