grand palais paris hours Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/grand-palais-paris-hours Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:06:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Grand Palais GALLERY AND MUSEUM PARIS, FRANCE http://travelsfinders.com/grand-palais-gallery-museum-paris-france.html http://travelsfinders.com/grand-palais-gallery-museum-paris-france.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:05:04 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220912 CHARLES GIRAULT With a floor area of some 775,000 sq ft (72,000 sq m) and perimeter walls around 0.6 miles (1km) in length, the Grand Palais is the largest surviving 19th-century exhibition building from the era of world fairs. It was built in just three years for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 and combines a main structure of iron and glass with monumental stone facades in the grand, neoclassical Beaux Arts style that was promoted by the academic Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Another style, Art Nouveau, is also evident both in the exterior decoration and the sinuous interior ironwork

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