View North West from the top of the Eiffel Tower looking towards the Place du Trocadero with La Défense in the far distance.
View North West from the top of the Eiffel Tower looking towards the Place du Trocadero with La Défense in the far distance. The Trocadéro, site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The hill of the Trocadéro is the hill of Chaillot, a former village. The place was named in honour of the Battle of Trocadero, in which the fortified Isla del Trocadero, in southern Spain, was captured by French forces led by the Duc d'Angoulême, son of the future king, Charles X, on August 31, 1823. France had intervened on behalf of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, whose rule was contested by a liberal rebellion. Trocadero restored the autocratic Spanish Bourbon Ferdinand VII to the throne of Spain, in an action that defined the Restoration. La Défense is a major business district of the Paris Metropolitan Area and of the Île-de-France region, located in the commune of Courbevoie, and parts of Puteaux and Nanterre, just west of the city of Paris. La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares ( million square metres) area, 72 glass and steel buildings of which 18 are completed skyscrapers, 180,000 daily workers, and million square metres ( million sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises.
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Location: Top floor observation deck, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
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