Q. How Long Did It Take to Build the Eiffel Tower?

A. The Eiffel Tower took 2 years and 2 months to complete. Excavation began on January 26th, 1887 and ended on March 30th, 1889.

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Before it was built, many people were protesting it and claimed it would be ugly and and an eyesore. A protest letter, signed by many well known French talents of their time, read as follows:

““We, the writers, painters, sculptors, architects and lovers of the beauty of Paris, do protest with all our vigour and all our indignation, in the name of French taste and endangered French art and history, against the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower…. ”

The best of us are wrong some times.