The monumental palace wings were joined by a spacious terrace with a splendid view of the Eiffel Tower. The terrace and view of the spacious hall, which leads to the Seine and sinks in greenery and picturesque fountains.
Under the palace, the site of former quarries, was created a huge aquarium - Sinakua (Cinéaqua). There are over ten thousand inhabitants of the underwater world. It was built during the construction of the Trocadero Palace. The aquarium has undergone restoration twice, and in 2006 its ultra modern halls reopened for visitors.
Today the palace is located museum of mankind, and the National Maritime Museum. In 1937 the palace had become a center for World Expo, in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art, built in the same year. Chaillot Palace is a monumental complex of two buildings with nearly cubic widely deployed curved wings that were collected from shestdesetmetrova terrace. Passage between two buildings is softened by increasing volumes of blur facade panels. This method of symmetry and kaskadnost attaches great beauty of the whole building.
Palace goes twenty-Six Feet Under. Apart from the museum of humanity and maritime museum in the ground level has a museum of French monuments, but also a museum of French folk art and traditions. The palace has Chaillot architectural museum.
Chaillot palace its name from the old medieval castle, which was called the same way. In the sixteenth century, Catherine de Medicis ordered to build a castle on the hill Chaillot. Then the castle was inhabited by the Marshal of Bassompire. He was sent to the Bastille (Bastille), which burned over six thousand love letters he received from his wife. In 1651 Queen Henrietta (Henrietta) palace became a place of relaxation for many famous ladies.
Subsequently, the mountain located in this area was called Trocadero in honor of the Spanish conquest of the fortress of the same name in 1823. In 1878 Paris hosted World Expo palmitate and Trocadero Palace was built, which was very large but extremely ugly. He stood nearly sixty years before being razed to the ground, which none of the Parisians not pity. Trocadero Palace was a mixture of Byzantine and Arab architecture, but the two styles were not in harmony with one another.
The new building of the palace was built, designed by architect Leon Azem (Léon Azema), Carlos Jacques (Jacques Carlu) and Louis Hippolyte Bualo (Louis-Hippolyte Boileau).
Chaillot palace set in a classic structural style is characteristic monument of architecture of the thirties of the twentieth century. It is built of concrete and white stone, which serves as a cladding of the facade. Chaillot palace was built on the foundations of the palace Trocadero. Chaillot palace is decorated with bronze statues of Hercules and Apollo (Apollo), which rise to the wings of the palace. Words of French poet Paul Valery (Paul Valéry) decorate the building.
