2024

DÔME DE PARIS (PALAIS DES SPORTS)

Village halls and multipurpose halls
3.8/5
5 reviews

It was the first flexible dining room of the capital, before Le Zénith and the POPB. Opened in 1960, Palais des Sports welcomed important events in the domain of boxing, for example, and the services of the basketball players of Harlem globetrotters. This space in the arena shape that can accommodate between two thousand five hundred and four thousand spectators six hundred was also made known while looking to see and include Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Johnny Hallyday... And then also by allowing the creation of shows king size like Robert Hossein. It is also that of choreographies Maurice Béjart, Roland Petit were created, Rudolf Noureev musicals, such as Les Misérables and stage where the troops of Holiday On Ice or the Circus of Moscow made. Much less funny: Palais des Sports was requisitioned, just as the Coubertin stadium, so that you can park it Algerian citizens challenged during the dreadful night of October 17th 1961. Some died here. Today, the musical with large budgets and the comedians perform in this palace that has aged but who resists...

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