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The Jardins du Trocadéro (French pronunciation:[ʒaʁdɛ̃dytʁɔkadeʁo]; 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.
History
A map of the Jardins du TrocadéroThe Jardins du Trocadéro and Fountain of Warsaw with the Eiffel Tower in the background during the 1937 World Expo in ParisThe Jardins du Trocadéro with the Eiffel Tower in the backgroundFountain of Warsaw, with the Palais de Chaillot in the background
During the exposition in 1937, the pavilions of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were facing each other on opposite sides of the Jardins du Trocadéro.
The main feature, called the Fontaine de Varsovie (Fountain of Warsaw), is a long basin, or water mirror, with twelve fountain creating columns of water 12 metres high; twenty four smaller fountains four metres high; and ten arches of water. At one end, facing the Seine, are twenty powerful water cannons, able to project a jet of water fifty metres. Above the long basin are two smaller basins, linked with the lower basin by cascades flanked by 32 sprays of water four meters high. These fountains are the only exposition fountains which still exist today, and still function as they once did. In 2011, the fountain's waterworks were completely renovated and a modern pumping system was installed.
Statuary
With sloping fairways that run along the river, the garden terraces feature a number of sculptures, some dating from the 1930s, including:
at the first level below the Palais de Chaillot, the matching stone statues L'Homme by Pierre Traverse, and La Femme by Daniel Bacqué, both leaning against stone pedestals
two gilded bronze fountain sculptures in their own square basins, Bull and Deer by Paul Jouve and Horses and Dog by Georges Guyot
21-foot bronze Apollo with lyre (or Apollon musagète) group by sculptor Henri Bouchard
a matching 21-foot bronze Hercules with bull, by Albert Pommier
two matching stone groups on pedestals towards the southeastern end of the fountain, La Joie de vivre, by Léon-Ernest Drivier and Youth by Pierre Poisson
a white, stone monument commemorating Polish veterans fighting to defend and liberate France 1939–1945, by André Greck (1978)
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