{"id":252302,"date":"2026-04-10T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=252302"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:07:06","slug":"a-piece-of-eiffel-tower-looking-for-quieter-place-to-live-original-section-of-towers-staircase-to-go-under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/252302\/","title":{"rendered":"A piece of Eiffel Tower looking for quieter place to \u2018live\u2019: Original section of tower\u2019s staircase to go under the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Eiffel Tower welcomes approximately seven million visitors each year. It has survived two world wars, endless refurbishments, and has played host to more marriage proposals than perhaps any other structure on earth.<\/p>\n

Now a small piece of the world-famous Eiffel Tower is looking for somewhere quieter to live.<\/p>\n

An original section of the tower’s spiral staircase – the very steps that carried the first visitors upward when the iconic Parisian monument opened in 1889 – is going under the hammer on May 21, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Estimates put the likely sale price at between €120,000 and €150,000 – but the final price could very well climb higher if past auctions are anything to go by.<\/p>\n

Standing 2.75 metres tall and 1.75 metres in diameter, the piece is made up of 14 steel steps, mounted on a cross-shaped base. It once formed part of the staircase connecting the tower’s second and third floors.<\/p>\n

When Gustave Eiffel’s iron marvel first opened during the Exposition Universelle of 1889, the only way up was on foot. It was only nearly a century later in 1983, during a significant renovation, that large sections were dismantled and replaced with lifts.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Eiffel Tower welcomes approximately seven million visitors each year. It has survived two world wars, endless refurbishments, and has played host to more marriage proposals than perhaps any other structure on earth. Now a small piece of the world-famous Eiffel Tower is looking for somewhere quieter to live. An original section of the tower’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252304,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252302\/revisions\/252304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}