Despite nowadays society think that the Eiffel Tower is a splendid work of architecture, when it was designed many Parisian artists were against its construction. In fact in February 1887 about three hundred artists (writers, painters, composers, architects, etc.) in “useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.” Mr. Eiffel. ” But today it is a symbol of the city, and nobody can imagine a Paris without this majestic tower.