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View of the Palais de Chaillot and the Jardins du Trocadéro from the Eiffel Tower in 2015 Fountain of Warsaw, with the Palais de Chaillot in the background. The Palais de Chaillot (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) ʃajo]) is a building at the top of the Chaillot hill [] in the Trocadéro area in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Trocadéro (pronounced [tʁɔkadeʁo] ⓘ), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. It is also the name of the 1878 Trocadéro Palace which was demolished in 1937 to make way for the Palais de Chaillot. [1]
Since 2017 Media-Saturn Holding which consists of MediaMarkt and Saturn chains is owned by Ceconomy, a company formed through a demerger from Metro Group. [5] In July 2017 Ceconomy bought a 24% stake in French multinational Fnac Darty. [6] In 2018 Ceconomy sold the 46 stores in Russia to M.video in exchange for 15% in the Russian retailer. [7]
The Jardins du Trocadéro (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy tʁɔkadeʁo]; 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.
Media-Saturn-Holding (or MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group), headquartered in Ingolstadt, bundles business under the MediaMarkt and Saturn brands. The formerly independent retail chains have been affiliated under company law since 1990. [22] The first MediaMarkt store opened in Munich in 1979, [23] the first Saturn store in 1961 on Cologne's ...
In 1542, Hippolyte d'Este (Cardinal d'Este and Archbishop of Lyon [2]) bought a building on the Chaillot Hill. In 1583, Queen Catherine de Médicis bought this mansion or hermitage and the part of the estate of the convent of the Minimes de Chaillot located in the present-day gardens of the Trocadéro, extending to the northeast opposite the present-day Palais d'Iéna on rue Albert-de-Mun and ...
Saturn is a German chain of electronics stores in Germany. With Media Markt it constitutes Media-Saturn Holding, owned by the retail trade company Ceconomy, which was spun-off from Metro Group in 2017. The Saturn store in Hamburg is the biggest electronics retail shop in Europe. Saturn is known for its slightly coarse advertising slogan Geiz ...
The Trocadéro Palace was an eclectic building of Moorish and neo-Byzantine inspiration dating from the second half of the 19th century. Located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, on the Convent of the Visitandines de Chaillot between the Place du Trocadéro and the gardens of the same name, it comprised a 4,600-seat auditorium extended on either side by two curved wings, each housing a ...