Palais du Trocadero
The Palais du Trocadéro in the 16th arrondissement (Paris) was a historicist exhibition palace that was built for the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 .
The eclectic exhibition building of the architects Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais was named after the peninsula Isla del Trocadero lying fort of the city Cadiz , which had taken in 1823, the French, the absolute monarchy in Spain again to use . Since this Battle of Trocadéro was commemorated every August 31st on the Hauteurs de Chaillot (Heights of Chaillot) in Paris, the building erected and commemorating it was designed in a neo-Moorish-neo-Byzantine style. From 1882 to 1937, at the suggestion of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , it housed the Musée de la sculpture comparée , which exhibited the remains of the Musée des Monuments français Alexandre Lenoirs . There was also an ethnographic museum, which later became the Musée de l'Homme . The gardens of the Trocadéro were designed by Jean-Charles Alphand . From 1880 the building also contained a public observatory , founded by Léon Jaubert . The large ballroom of the Trocadéro with a capacity of 5000 people was famous for its concert organ . This was first transferred to the subsequent building. Today it serves as the organ of the Maurice Ravel Auditorium in Lyon . The statue decorations were distributed and can be found today at the Musée d'Orsay , Parc de Sceaux , Parc Georges Brassens and in Nîmes .
The main building of the Palais du Trocadéro was demolished except for its side wings for the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 and as such was no longer replaced. After the addition of risalits , these huge side wings have since formed the two unconnected parts of the Palais de Chaillot , which itself has no central building. From the resulting open space on the site of the former Palais du Trocadéro you have the most famous view of the Eiffel Tower .
The name Trocadéro lives on as a station of the Métro Paris , as the name of the square in front of the Palais de Chaillot and above all through the Jardins du Trocadéro .