The 16th arrondissement of Paris, also known as arrondissement of Passy, is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. With its ornate 19th-century buildings, large avenues, prestigious schools, museums, and various parks. The arrondissement includes part of the Arc de Triomphe, and a concentration of museums between the Place du Trocadéro and the Place d’Iéna. The district is essentially residential, but also home to the largest number of embassies and consulates in Paris as well as world-famous sports facilities, such as the Parc des Princes or the Roland-Garros stadium.

The 16th arrondissement of Paris, is located on the right bank of the Seine, to the west of the city. It is bordered to the east by the Seine and to the west by the Paris ring road, with the exception of the Bois de Boulogne which is located on the other side of this route. It is the largest arrondissement in Paris in terms of land area. With the hundreds of hectares of Bois de Boulogne, the 16th arrondissement is the greenest in the capital. The arrondissement has long been known as one of French high society’s favourite places of residence.

The 16th arrondissement has a high concentration of museums and cultural sites that offer a rich and varied program to discover throughout the year. An area which deserves to be discovered, both for its cultural heritage as for its stunning architecture. A varied cultural offer thanks to its many museums, large green spaces for getting some fresh air and a remarkable architectural heritage and diversified.

The 16th arrondissement is also an arrondissement which brings together a remarkable architectural heritage. Cobbled streets with a bucolic spirit, plush buildings in the 18th century style or Art Nouveau constructions. At the heart of the district of La Muette, the rue Berton is one of the most amazing in Paris. Its medieval atmosphere of small pedestrian street hidden from the rest of the city is a real wonder.

The 16th arrondissement is one of the most bourgeois in Paris. The French phrase le 16e has been associated with great wealth in French popular culture. The streets, the shops, and the parks of the 16h Arrondissement showcase how well-off Parisians live, and make vistors have a feeling of luxury. The 16th arrondissement remains, in the collective imagination, an image of the “rich ghetto”. Indeed, the 16th arrondissement of Paris is France’s third richest district for average household income, following the 7th, and Neuilly-sur-Seine, both adjacent.

The 16th arrondissement also offer many parks and gardens, both ideal for families or for a relaxing time. The Bois de Boulogne, the parks of Passy, Bagatelle and Pré Catelan are remarkable treasures. These greenery which brings a nice decorative touch to the city, allowing people relax in a calm and soothing environment. At the former La Muette station, there are extraordinary wild flora made up of some two hundred plant species sheltering some 70 animal species.

The 16th arrondissement hosts several large sporting venues, including: the Parc des Princes, which is the stadium where Paris Saint-Germain football club plays its home matches; Roland Garros Stadium, where the French Open tennis championships are held; and Stade Jean-Bouin, home to the Stade Français rugby union club.

Auteuil district
The Auteuil district is the 61st administrative district of Paris and one of four located in the 16th arrondissement, between the Bois de Boulogne and the Seine, in the west of Paris. It is part of the former town of the same name which existed from the Revolution until the annexation of 1860.

Muette district
The district of La Muette is the 62nd administrative district of Paris located in the 16th arrondissement. The district of La Muette extends, from west to east, from the Bois de Boulogne to the Seine, from north to south, from the avenue Henri-Martin and from the axis of the place du Trocadéro to the pont d’Iéna in the gardens of the Trocadéro at rue du Ranelagh. It houses the 16th century town hall and the Passy cemetery, where Manet, Georges Mandel and Claude Debussy are interred.

Porte-Dauphine district
The Porte-Dauphine district is the 63rd administrative district of Paris located in the northwestern part of the 16th arrondissement. It takes its name from the Porte Dauphine. The district includes a fairly large number of private roads such as the square of avenue Foch, the villas Saïd, Dupont, Spontini, rue de Pomereu, avenue de Montespan, however generally less extensive than those in the south of the borough. The residential area of very high standing, also including many embassies, has well-distributed commercial facilities, particularly around Place Victor Hugo, which is a fairly lively center.

The architecture is quite homogeneous with an absence of buildings prior to 1840, a majority of buildings from the period from 1871 to 1914 in Haussmannian or post-Haussmannian styles, suiting the taste of the majority of the upper middle class of that time, on the whole less innovative than those in the south of the arrondissement (few Art Nouveau buildings), a notable minority of the interwar Art Deco style and a small number of isolated newer constructions inserted into the alignments respecting the format of the neighboring buildings. The mansions of the beginnings of urbanization have been, for some of them, replaced by buildings.

Chaillot district
The Chaillot district is the 64th administrative district of Paris. Located in the 16th arrondissement on the hill of Chaillot, it originated from a village of the same name. A district of Chaillot was formed in 1860 within the new 16th arrondissement. Under the Second Empire, leveling work was undertaken by Baron Haussmann. The hill of Chaillot thus loses three meters in height, which allows the development in 1869 of the large square of the King of Rome, around which large avenues starting in a star are traced: avenues of the Emperor, of the King -de-Rome, Malakoff and Jena.

The Trocadero Palace was built there on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1878, around which many residential buildings were built. The palace gave way to the Palais de Chaillot in 1935 for the 1937 Specialized Exhibition. The Trocadero Palace, a building initially provisional but ultimately preserved; under the gardens, in the old stone quarries, a huge freshwater aquarium is created. The 1889 exhibition is symbolized by the construction of the Eiffel Tower; a retrospective of French art takes place at the Trocadéro.

Main Attractions
The 16th arrondissement has a lot to offer, a vibrant melting pot of food, of art and nature. There are some of the most beautiful masterpieces of the city, one of its largest parks, all in a unique Art Nouveau architectural setting. Comparable to Kensington and Chelsea in London or the Upper East Side in New York, the 16th arrondissement is perhaps one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, but it retains the relaxing and charming atmosphere of a village in a town.

The 16th is an arrondissement which brings together a remarkable architectural heritage. Cobbled streets with a bucolic spirit, plush buildings in the 18th century style or Art Nouveau constructions. The 16th arrondissement also concentrates the largest number of Art Nouveau style buildings and mansions in Paris.

The Hotel Guimard located at 122 avenue Mozart, which surprises with the layout of its windows and balconies, is its emblem. In the Chaillot district, the Pauilhac hotel (59 avenue Raymond Poincaré) is also a fine example of Art Nouveau architecture, with a Gothic tendency.

The pretty village of Auteuil, calm and flowery, renowned for its green spaces, its private villas, its shops and its market. You enter through the Porte de Saint-Cloud where the two Landowski fountains stand, 10 meters high, in Art Deco style and decorated with bas-reliefs. The first luminous fountains in the capital, they are the work of the sculptor Paul Landowski.

Rue Nungesser-et-Coli you can see the glass facade of the Molitor building designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret in the 1930s. It is the first in the history of architecture! The apartment-workshop Le Corbusier located on the 7th and 8th floor, duplex where the architect lived and worked for many years is open to visitors, restored and furnished in its 1965 state.

The La Roche house is twinned with the Jeanneret house. These two houses, built between 1923 and 1925 by the architect Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, are part of the cycle of purist villas: geometric lines, use of reinforced concrete, pilotis, garden roof, and large openings. The two villas also serve as the headquarters of the Le Corbusier Foundation.

In a very different style, the Hôtel de Polignac is certainly one of the finest classical residences built during the Belle Epoque, in Paris. Since 1945, it has housed the headquarters of the Singer-Polignac Foundation, which devotes its patronage activities to the arts, letters and sciences. The Château de la Muette, which today houses the headquarters of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) built in the 1920s, bears witness to an 18th century style.

Museums
The 16th district has the largest concentration of museums in to satisfy cultural appetite, from Impressionist collections of the Musée Marmottan-Monnet to the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris or the Asian art at Guimet Museum.

Chaillot Palace
The Palais de Chaillot is located on the Chaillot hill in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement. It is, with the Palais de Tokyo and the Palais d’Iéna, one of the three permanent buildings resulting from Universal Exhibition. The facades and roofs of the palace, its forecourt and its terrace with its staircase, its surviving original decorations (except the redesigned theater hall) have been classified as historical monuments by order of the December 24, 1980.

The Palais de Chaillot is formed of two pavilions and two curvilinear wings encircling a central void (the Esplanade des droits de l’homme) and descending towards the Seine. Between the two wings “de Passy” (to the west) and “de Paris” (to the east), the Trocadero gardens dominate the view of the Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars.

The entire building is characterized by abundant statuary due, among others, to the artists Paul Belmondo, Léon-Ernest Drivier and Marcel Gimond. Charles Hairon made some of the exterior bas-reliefs and Gilbert Poillerat the entrance gates. The two pavilions are surmounted by monumental groups sculpted by Raymond Delamarre and Carlo Sarrabezolles. Among the statues arranged along the large stairs leading to the fountain in the Trocadero gardens (or “of Warsaw”, erected in 1937), on the side of the Passy wing, standing, the Homme by Pierre Traverse, and seated, Flore by Louis-Aimé Lejeune.

In front are the Trocadéro gardens, adorned with sculptures and organized vegetation within an English-style park framing cascading pools, the fountain and flowing through twenty jets of water staged on eight levels. successive. Félix Févola created the water mirror and the fountains. The whole is fitted out by the architect Roger-Henri Expert.

City of architecture and heritage
The City of Architecture and Heritage is a public industrial and commercial establishment (EPIC) placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Installed in the “Paris” wing (north-east) of the Palais de Chaillot (place du Trocadéro), it is, with its 22,000 m 2, the largest architectural center in the world. Its mission is to ensure the promotion of French architecture in France and abroad, and to discover the emblematic works of French architectural heritage and international contemporary creation.

Palace of Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo, whose original name is Palais des Musées d’Art Moderne, designates a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It is located at 13, avenue du President-Wilson in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, following the banks of the Seine a few hundred meters northeast of the Palais de Chaillot, in an architectural style that is close to it. The outer shell of the building is completely clad in marble. The exhibition area is one of the largest for contemporary art on the international scene.

The Palais de Tokyo is, along with the Palais de Chaillot and the Palais d’Iéna, one of the three permanent buildings resulting from the 1937 International Exhibition and intended, according to the 1934 project, to replace the Luxembourg Museum. It initially served to present a retrospective of French art from the Middle Ages, but its real inauguration dates from 1947, when the collections relocated during the Second World War returned.

Paris Museum of Modern Art
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents the municipal collection of modern and contemporary art since Fauvism, rich in more than 15,000 works, mainly focused on artistic movements linked to the capital and more recently on the European art scene. It occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo. The west wing of the palace, which belongs to the State, is also devoted to contemporary creation in all its forms. The museum, inaugurated in 1961, reopened on February 2, 2006, after a period of renovation, with an exhibition devoted to Pierre Bonnard.

The Modern collection is representative of the artistic movements that have developed in Paris since Fauvism in 1905; while the contemporary collection, from the 1960s, is more open to the European artistic scene (new realism, narrative figuration, kinetics, arte povera, Supports/Surfaces, BMPT, German artists and young French scene…). The Michael Werner donation thus made it possible to bring together the main French collection of German contemporary art, with that of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Jena Palace
The Palais d’Iéna is a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris built by the architect Auguste Perret in 1937. The Palais d’Iéna houses a hemicycle of three hundred seats covered with a double dome. The lobby features a monumental suspended horseshoe staircase. Having hosted the National Museum of Public Works from 1939 to 1955, since 1960 it has been the headquarters of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council and the International Chamber of Commerce.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a French art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group LVMH and its subsidiaries. The art museum opened on October 20, 2014 in the presence of President François Hollande. The museum’s collection, believed to be a combination of works owned by LVMH and Bernard Arnault, include works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koons.

The Deconstructivist building was designed by American architect Frank Gehry, with groundwork starting in 2006. The building site is designed after the founding principles of 19th century landscaped gardens. It connects the building with the Jardin d’Acclimatation at north, and the Bois de Boulogne to the south. The two-story structure has 11 galleries of different sizes, a voluminous 350-seat auditorium on the lower-ground floor and multilevel roof terraces for events and art installations.

Yves Saint Laurent Museum
The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris is a museum dedicated to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in Paris. The fund, which began in the 1960s and was brought together during their lifetime by the pair Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, has some 35,000 pieces (designs, textiles, accessories, etc.), including more than 7,000 haute couture creations. His most emblematic creations are recalled: The tuxedo for women,thesaharienne, the Mondrian dress, the Jumpsuit, etc., creations that have become classics.

Museum of human
The Musée de l’Homme is a French national museum established since 1937 in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, whose vocation is to present the human race in its anthropological, historical and cultural diversity. It is a department of the National Museum of Natural History, under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.

House La Roche
Maison La Roche was built between 1923 and 1925 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It is considered today as a prestigious example of modern architecture in France, in which Le Corbusier find for the first time the architectural expression of the five points for a new architecture. The site was listed, along with 16 other architectural works by Le Corbusier, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.

Marmottan Monet Museum
The Marmottan Museum, which became the Marmottan Monet Museum in the 1990s, is a fine arts museum located in Paris. The museum originated in the gift by art historian Paul Marmottan of his private mansion and its Renaissance and Napoleonic era collections to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1932. In particular, it presents a collection of works of art and paintings from the First Empire, as well as works by Impressionist painters, including the largest collection in the world of works by Claude Monet.

The collections of Paul Marmottan, bequeathed in 1932 with the private mansion which houses the museum, include works by primitive Italian, German and Flemish painters (Michel Haider) as well as sculptures, tapestries and old stained glass windows. Most of the collections are however devoted to the art of the First Empire with a rich set of furniture (Jacob, Bellangé, Thomire, Feuchère…), sculptures (Canova, Chaudet, Chinard, Pajou…), works of art, paintings… including works by the greatest artists of the period such as David, Ingres, Gros, Girodet, Fabre, Boilly and in his portrait gallery, François Gérard, Louis Gauffier, Carle Vernet, etc.

Palais Galliera, fashion museum of the city of Paris
The Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la ville de Paris, is a French museum located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, dedicated to the art and history of clothing and haute couture. With its 200,000 clothes, accessories, photographs, drawings, illustrations and prints, it houses one of the most important collections in the world. Among the collections, there is Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, René Gruau, Christian Bérard, Bernard Blossac, René Bouët-Willaumez, Pierre Louchel, Pierre Pagès and even Roger Rouffiange. These rare pieces can be admired during temporary exhibitions.

National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet
The National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet, is a museum of Asian arts located place d’Iéna, in the 16th arrondissement. Designed, during its renovation in 1997, as a great center of knowledge of Asian civilizations in the heart of Europe, it presents today, grouped in a space dedicated to them, one of the most complete collections of Asian arts in the world.

Natural area
The 16th arrondissement offer many parks and gardens, both ideal for families or for a relaxing time. Among the most original ones are the Japanese Garden or Parc de Bagatelle. The charming Parc de Bagatelle, its splendid rose garden and its musical festivals as well as the Catelan meadow where the delightful Shakespeare garden is nestled, which is transformed each spring into one of the most beautiful Parisian open-air theatres.

The majestic Trocadéro gardens created in the 1930s offer a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower dominating the capital. In its center, the famous Warsaw fountain equipped with 20 water cannons unveils a magical aquatic spectacle on summer nights.

The Bois de Boulogne, the green lung of western Paris, is an 846-hectare green setting. Formerly dedicated to forestry production and royal hunts, Napoleon III donated it to the city of Paris in 1852 to make it a place for public walks.

On the northern edge of the wood is the Jardin d’Acclimatation. Created during the Second Empire, this green space of more than 18 hectares is the oldest leisure park in the capital. It is a place of relaxation and entertainment which has managed to preserve its Napoleonic architecture while offeringperiod attractions and more modern rides.

The Ranelagh garden is a true haven of peace.In addition to the puppet theater and the carousel with wooden horses – the oldest in Paris – the garden is embellished with numerous sculptures.

The Serres d’Auteuil garden, created under Louis XV in 1761, covers 7 hectares. Organized around a French-style flowerbed, the five greenhouses guarantee a total change of scenery for all walkers strolling among its rare plants and trees, its palmarium and its magnificent aviary.