Palais du Louvre et jardin des Tuileries (Musée du Louvre)
Place du carrousel, 75001 Paris, France
A former royal garden that by the end of the 17th century had become a public promenade, a place of major memory in the history of France, the Tuileries offer the example of a garden marked by all the centuries, modified under all regimes. Although deprived of the palace of the same name (burned in 1871, demolished in 1883), the Tuileries belong to a vast national domain and have been managed since 2005 by the Louvre Museum. On a Renaissance frame, inherited from the garden created for Catherine de Médicis in 1564-1571, André Le Nôtre drew for Louis XIV, a century later, one of the prototypes of regular garden, "à la française". The Tuileries consist of a low garden divided into a parterre called the "Grand Carré", then of a wooded part, the "Grand Couvert", decorated with green rooms, finally of a large octagonal basin associated with a pair of monumental ramps named the Fer-à-Cheval, from which escapes the perspective towards the Champs-Élysées - this perspective being itself a creat
Tags
Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Espace naturel, parc, jardin, Lieu de pouvoir, édifice judiciaire, Lieu de spectacles, sports et loisirs, Musée, salle d'exposition, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, Jardin remarquable, Monument historique
Acceso
M° Concorde (lines 1, 8 & 12), Tuileries (line 1), Pyramides (lines 7 & 14) and Palais-Royal-musée du Louvre (lines 1 and 7) / RER C Musée d'Orsay (crossing the Seine by the Léopold Sédar Senghor bridge) Bus lines 24, 48, 69 and 81 Vélib' 2 rue Cambon, 2 rue d'Alger, 5 rue de l'Échelle, 165 rue Saint-Honoré and Quai Anatole-France (left bank)
