The Eiffel Tower, the symbol par excellence of the city of Paris, capital of France, and one of the most visited monuments in the world, remains closed to the public today due to a strike by its employees. The unexpected decision was announced by Sete, the company that manages the website. The workers protested not on any day, but on the 100th anniversary of the death of engineer Gustave Eiffel, “to denounce the current management, which is literally driving Sete to the wall,” the CGT union said in a press release.
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A strike that, as explained, was planned on the very day of the death of the engineer Eiffel – which took place on December 27, 1923 at the age of 91. Even today, Eiffel is still recognized not only in France but around the world as a brilliant creator of a vast architectural heritage, consisting of hundreds of works on every continent, as well as inventions in the fields of meteorology and aerodynamics. It was precisely for all these reasons that his descendants made a formal request for his remains to be transferred to the Pantheon.