Tuileries Gardens & Louvre Museum , Paris, France

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Tuileries Garden, Paris, France

 

The kaleidoscope of light and motion in our image comes courtesy of two things: Long-exposure photography and an annual festival put on in the heart of Paris. Every year from June to August the Festival of the Tuileries adds towering amusement rides and cotton candy to the historic Tuileries Garden. (We're seeing a swinging chair ride in the center of our image here.)

 

Queen Catherine de Medici commissioned a grand garden in 1564 to complement her royal residence, the Tuileries Palace. Following the French Revolution, the garden became a public park, and has since served as a beloved gathering place for locals and visitors to the City of Light.

 

Panoramic aerial view of Tuileries Garden and the Louvre

along the Seine, Paris, France.

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The Place de la Concorde

This is one of Paris’ most famous squares due to its location at the bottom of the world’s most beautiful avenue, the Champs-Elysées, but also because it’s the largest square in the capital, spanning 8.64 hectares.
 
It is distinguished by the Luxor Obelisk (over 3000 years old), which was gifted in 1836 to thank the Frenchman Champollion who was the first man to successfully translate hieroglyphics. This monument, which is 23 meters tall and weighs 222 tons, sits on a 240-ton pedestal with a 3.5m pyramid at the top, made from bronze and sheets of gold.
 
Completed in 1772, the Place de la Concorde was first used as a site for executions during the French Revolution where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette were guillotined. It was between 1836 and 1846 that the architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorf fashioned the square into what it is today.

 

The Musée du Louvre 

One of the largest and most beautiful museums in the world, the Louvre stretches over 60,000m² and houses 460,000 works of art. It’s the best known and most popular museums in the world with no fewer than 8.5 million visitors each year.
 
The Louvre has a long history: formerly the residence of the French kings, it was rapidly transformed into a museum following the French Revolution. Just a few hundred works were displayed there before the museum began expanding its collection year by year.
 
Today you’ll find precious and unusual treasures there, including works from the Middle-Ages, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, graphic art and Islamic art. The Louvre has also succeeded in tastefully combining its history with modern architecture, as illustrated by the addition of its famous glass pyramid that sits in the central courtyard.

 
Now you should know that this neighborhood is packed with splendors that you simply cannot miss if you’re in Paris. So, without further delay, go and explore it and make the most of these Parisian charms.

 

The Tuileries Garden

A true symbol of French charm and custom, the Tuileries Garden attracts Parisians and tourists alike every year with its paths and glorious fountains. It is situated between the Louvre palace and the Place de la Concorde and stretches across over 25 hectares.
 
It was Catherine de’Médici who was behind this extraordinary garden after the construction of the Tuileries Palace in the 16th Century. The garden has a very simple linear layout with six paths along and eight across, surrounded by rectangular flowerbeds where you’ll find a wide array of different plants.

 

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Crowd in the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.

 

 

The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution.  Since the 19th century, it has been a place for Parisians to celebrate, meet, stroll and relax.   During the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, it was the site of the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron.

 

History

The Italian Garden of Catherine de' Medici (16th century)

 

In July 1559, after the accidental death of her husband, Henry II, Queen Catherine de' Medici decided to leave her residence of the Hôtel des Tournelles, at the eastern part of Paris, near the Bastille. Together with her son, the new king of France Francis II, her other children and the royal court, she moved to the Louvre Palace. Five years later, in 1564, she decided to build a new residence with more space for a garden. For that purpose, Catherine bought land west of Paris, just outside the city Wall of Charles V. It was bordered on the south by the Seine, and on the north by the faubourg Saint-Honoré, a road in the countryside continuing the Rue Saint-Honoré. Since the 13th century this area had been occupied by tile-making factories called tuileries (from the French tuile, meaning "tile"). The new residence was called the Tuileries Palace

 

Catherine commissioned a landscape architect from Florence, Bernard de Carnesse, to create an Italian Renaissance garden for the palace. The new garden was an enclosed space five hundred metres long and three hundred metres wide, separated from the new palace by a lane. It was divided into rectangular compartments by six alleys, and the sections were planted with lawns, flower beds, and small clusters of five trees, called quinconces; and, more practically, with kitchen gardens and vineyards.  It was further decorated with fountains, a labyrinth, a grotto, and faience images of plants and animals, made by Bernard Palissy, whom Catherine had tasked to discover the secret of Chinese porcelain.

 

The development of the garden was interrupted by a civil war. In 1588 Henry III had to flee through the garden to escape capture from the Catholic League on the Day of the Barricades of the French Wars of Religion and did not return. The gardens were pillaged. However, the new king, Henry IV, returned in 1595 and, with his chief landscape gardener Claude Mollet, restored and embellished the gardens. Henry built a chamille, or covered arbor, the length of the garden, Another alley was planted with mulberry trees where he hoped to cultivate silkworms and start a silk industry in France.   He also built a rectangular ornamental lake of 65 metres by 45 metres with a fountain supplied with water by the new pump called La Samaritaine, which had been built in 1608 on the Pont Neuf. The area between the palace and the former moat of Charles V was turned into the "New Garden" (Jardin Neuf) with a large fountain in the center. Though Henry IV never lived in the Tuileries Palace, which was continually under reconstruction, he did use the gardens for relaxation and exercise.

 

Garden of Louis XIII in 1649–51

 

The Carrousel of 5–6 June 1662 at the Tuileries, celebrating the birth of Louis XIV's son and heir

 

Plan of the Jardin des Tuileries

 

On 6 October 1789, as the French Revolution began, King Louis XVI and family were brought against his will to the Tuileries Palace. The garden was reserved exclusively for the royal family in the morning, then open to the public in the afternoon. Queen Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin were given a part of the garden for her private use, first at the west end of the Promenade Bord d'eaux, then at the edge of the Place Louis XV.

 

After the King's failed attempt to escape France on 21 June 1791, the King and family were placed under house arrest in the palace. The royal family was allowed to walk in the park on the evening of 18 September 1791, during the festival organized to celebrate the new French Constitution, when the alleys of the park were illuminated with pyramids and rows of lanterns.  But as the Revolution took a more radical turn, On 10 August 1792, a mob stormed the palace, the King was imprisoned, and the King's Swiss Guards fell back through the gardens where they were massacred.

 

Place and Jardin du Carrousel.

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The Grand Carré

The Grand Bassin, or circular pond, originally part of the private royal garden

 

The Grand Carré, with its three ponds. The Musee d'Orsay is in the background

 

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The Grand Couvert, the forested central portion of the garden, looking toward the Louvre

 

The octagonal basin and the Grand Couvert, looking toward the Louvre

 

By the octagonal basin, looking toward the Place de la Concorde

 

Musée de l'Orangerie, a greenhouse converted to a gallery for Monet's Water Lilies

 

Detail of one of the eight Les Nymphéas (Water Lilies) by Claude Monet, put into the Orangerie in 1927

 

Nymphe by Auguste Levêque, (1866). In the Grand Carré, at the beginning of the Grand Allée

 

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus par Denis Foyatier (1793-1863), jardin des Tuileries, Paris

 

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