Today’s painters are equipped with harnesses attached to 31 miles of safety lines which allow them to move around freely while staying attached at all times. Of course, safety is a priority when painting the Eiffel Tower. These painters are all specialized in work on metallic structures at great heights, just like the painters shown above who worked on the tower almost exactly 100 years ago (in 1924).ĭid you know? Painters can only work when the weather conditions are right because the paint can’t adhere to a surface that is too cold or too humid. You won’t see the painters working during your visit because just like the men and women who work on the lighting, the painters only work at night once all the visitors have gone. Professional painters handle the Eiffel Tower repainting, and it’s not just a few of them either - it’s a crew of 50. They are held together with 2.5 million rivets. Fun fact: The Eiffel Tower is made from 18,038 sections of puddle iron, a type of wrought iron. This is why visitors to the tower are seeing scaffolding and netting around parts of it and why sections of the Eiffel Tower gardens are closed to the public. It marks the most important restoration of Paris’s landmark monument since it was built in 1889. Work for this newest Eiffel Tower paint job began in early 2019. “It will give the Eiffel Tower a bit more of a ‘gold’ look for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games compared to the color we were more used to,” says Patrick Branco Ruivo, director of the Eiffel Tower management company (SETE). The photograph above gives you an idea of the different colors the Eiffel Tower has been over the years, in slightly exaggerated form.īy November of 2022, it will no longer be painted in “Eiffel Tower brown” but in “yellow brown,” matching what it looked like between 19.
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