Paris France - Fontaine du Trocadéro - Landmark - Historic por Onasill - Bill Badzo

The fountain was built for the 1937 Special Exhibition, which saw a complete restructuring of the neighborhood, the replacement of the former Trocadero Palace by the Palais de Chaillot and the rearrangement of the Trocadero Gardens. The architects are Roger-Henri Expert, Paul Maître and Adolphe Thiers, sculptors Daniel-Joseph Bacqué and Leon-Ernest Drivier. Largest fountain in Paris, it includes "an impressive device of twenty oblique guns, divided into four groups of five, pointed towards the Eiffel Tower and with a range of fifty meters, to which are added, in strictly aquatic terms, fifty- six sprays of water of four meters and twelve columns of seven meters. Everything works on a motor of a thousand horses. At the 1937 exhibition, 530 spotlights were installed in and around the fountain to create a night show2. In winter, when the fountain is frozen, it is possible to ice skate and slide on the surface. 327