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Tourist informations
Monuments
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The Palais du Louvre is a former royal palace located in Paris on the right bank of the Seine in the 1st district of Paris, between the Jardin des Tuileries and Saint Germain l’Auxerrois church. Today, it is one of the richer Art Museum in the world.
The Louvre construction has lasted almost one thousand years and is inseparable from the history of Paris.
Louvre museum is the bigger Parisian museum, by its surface (160 106 m² with 58 470m² devoted to exhibitions). Located in the heart of Paris, between the right bank of the Seine and Rivoli Street, in the 1st district, the building is a former royal palace. The equestrian statue of Louis XIV constitutes the starting point of the historical axis, but the palace is not lined up on this axis. It is one of the oldest museums and the third bigger in the world. The Louvre owns a long story of artistic and historic conservation of France, from to Capetian to today.
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