One of the 24 Parts of the original spiral staircase that allowed access to the top of the Eiffel Tower will go on sale next 1 December at the Artcurial auction house in Paris.

The piece, almost three meters long, belongs to the original spiral staircase, what date 1889. And it is not the first time that a part of the Eiffel Tower has been auctioned, so that in 2009, a stretch of 2.7 meters of the ladder was sold for 550,000 euros to an American collector.

Originally, the staircase joined the second and third floors, until in the year of 1983 it was decided to remove it, with the aim of modernizing it to install an elevator.

Only one of the fragments remained on the first floor of the tower. Another three were donated to the Parisian museums of Orsay and La Villete and to the Museum of the History of Iron located in Nancy.

The 20 The remaining pieces were auctioned and acquired by collectors around the world and are today in prestigious sites such as the gardens of the Yoishii Foundation., in the Japanese city of Yamanashi, near the Statue of Liberty in New York or Disneyland.

Most of the sections belong to foreign private collections, mainly from Switzerland, Italy and Canada, as is the case of the piece that Artcurial will offer the 1 from December, whose sale price is estimated between 30.000 Y 40.000 euros (between 35.420 Y 47.220 Dollars).

Before the pandemic, The Eiffel Tower was the most visited monument in the world with around 25 thousand daily visitors and an approximate of 7 million in a year. Symbol of paris, was designed by the French engineer Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. (TELAM)