The great casts hall
Chartres and Amiens portals and their statuary at full scale in one solemn rank — France's Gothic centuries in a single corridor walked in astonishment.
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For architecture and history lovers: the Cité, unhesitatingly; for families and the curious: the Musée de l'Homme's interactive human story; for the nautical: the renewed naval museum — all sharing the Tower windows.
Swim against the crowd current: the Trocadéro photo early, a Chaillot museum until noon, then the descent through the gardens to an afternoon Tower slot — your day completes with the crowds always behind you.
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The two curved wings embracing the Trocadéro plaza are the Palais de Chaillot, built for the 1937 Fair on an older palace's footings — and from its terrace the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed in 1948, when it hosted the infant United Nations. Millions stand on its esplanade for the Eiffel photo and leave never knowing what's inside. The inside deserves knowing: in the east wing, the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine — the most usefully clever trick in Paris: a hall of full-scale casts of France's cathedral portals, statues and murals, letting you walk among the doorways of Chartres, Amiens and Vézelay in a single hour — "all medieval France without a train." In the west wing, the Musée de l'Homme, the naval museum, and the national dance theatre of Chaillot. Make it your smart stop after the Trocadéro photo: an hour in the casts hall or the Musée de l'Homme, both with interior Tower views ranking among Paris's finest windows — and the Cité's terrace café is an architectural secret in itself.
Chartres and Amiens portals and their statuary at full scale in one solemn rank — France's Gothic centuries in a single corridor walked in astonishment.
From the Cité's and Musée de l'Homme's galleries the Eiffel Tower fills whole windows — indoor-seat views calmer than the entire esplanade outside.
Where the new world stood and proclaimed human rights — an esplanade plaque preserving the moment everyone walks over unaware.
Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris