Petřín Tower is Prague's affectionate answer to the Eiffel Tower — built in 1891 for the Jubilee Exhibition and standing at just 63.5 metres tall, yet perched high enough on Petřín Hill that its observation deck sits at roughly the same altitude above sea level as the top of its Parisian inspiration. The resemblance is no accident: Czech engineers were so taken with Gustave Eiffel's iron lattice structure unveiled two years earlier that they essentially made their own, scaled-down version. It has never tried to hide the homage, and Praguers have embraced it with a civic warmth that makes it feel genuinely lovable rather than imitative.
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