The Grand Palais, as you've never seen it before.
Well hidden behind the construction palisades on which its story is told in comic strips, it has entered the key phase of the fairly colossal restoration work (466 million euros) which must deliver the great Nave for the 2024 Olympics and the entire monument recomposed for 2025. It will be spacious, communicating, bright, polychrome and in line with today's technical needs.
Thus, it will be accessible everywhere to people with reduced mobility (20 to 25 lifts).
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Seen from the outside, nothing has yet really changed in this monument erected by the Republic for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, under the frank sun of this Monday, June 27.
“Its location in the heart of Paris, its architecture combining classicism and modernity, its exceptional dimensions (72,000 m2) and its remarkable volumes (the largest Nave in Europe, 13,500 m2 of surface area crowned by a glass roof of 17,500 m2 , the Salon d'Honneur, the National Galleries, etc.
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