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The Trocadéro Palace was an eclectic building of Moorish and neo-Byzantine inspiration dating from the second half of the 19th century. Located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, on the Convent of the Visitandines de Chaillot between the Place du Trocadéro and the gardens of the same name, it comprised a 4,600-seat auditorium extended on either side by two curved wings, each housing a ...
Within its garden, the old palace contained two large animal statues, of a rhinoceros and an elephant, which were removed and stored during the demolition of the old Trocadero palace, and have been located next to the entrance of the Musée d'Orsay since 1986.
The palace, whose architect was Gabriel Davioud, had two wings flanking a central concert hall. [1] The Musée national des Monuments Français was created at the same time in the other wing. The first director of the anthropological museum was Ernest Hamy , an anthropologist with the Natural History Museum who had urged the foundation of such ...
Trocadero, Birmingham, a pub in England; Trocadero (Los Angeles), a 1930s ballroom and a modern nightclub in California, U.S. Trocadero, Newtown, a heritage-listed former dance hall in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Trocadero, San Francisco, a roadhouse in California, U.S. London Trocadero, an 1896 restaurant, now a shopping complex
The Organ of the Trocadero Palace was built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll for the 1878 Universal Exhibition at the Palais du Trocadéro in Paris, France. The organ was transferred to the Palais de Chaillot in 1937, before moving to the Auditorium Maurice-Ravel in Lyon in 1977.
The Jardins du Trocadéro (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy tʁɔkadeʁo]; Gardens of the Trocadéro) is a public space in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.It is bounded to the northwest by the wings of the Palais de Chaillot and to the southeast by the Seine and the Pont d'Iéna at the Place de Varsovie, with the Eiffel Tower on the opposite bank of the Seine.
The central building, the Palais de Trocadero, was constructed in a picturesque neo-Moorish or neo-Byzantine style by architect Gabriel Davioud, whose other notable works, built for Napoleon III, included the two theaters on the Place du Chatelet and the Fontaine Saint-Michel. The palace was used in all three Expositions of the Belle Époque ...
View of the Palais de Chaillot and the Jardins du Trocadéro from the Eiffel Tower in 2015 Fountain of Warsaw, with the Palais de Chaillot in the background. The Palais de Chaillot (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) ʃajo]) is a building at the top of the Chaillot hill [] in the Trocadéro area in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.