The Eiffel Tower in Paris was built in 1889 for the Universal Exhibition. Standing 300 metres high, it was the tallest man-made structure of its time.The only practical use of the Eiffel Tower is to provide splendid views over Paris, and its real purpose was to demonstrate that France was a leader in the technical world. Here you can see some beautiful Pictures of Eiffel Tower.The Eiffel Tower was always massively popular with the public, but not with the artistic elite at the start. The tower could be seen from anywhere in Paris.The writer Guy de Maupassant detested it so much that he had lunch in the tower restaurant as often as possible because it was only in the tower itself that you did not have to look at it.Two million people visited the Eiffel tower in its first year and it became ever more popular as the years went by. Looking at the tower became just as important as looking from the tower. Slowly the Eiffel Tower became the pre-eminent symbol of Paris and of France. It was painted by important artists and praised by poets and novelists.