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If you like "immense" spaces filled with treasures of the distant past, and if you wish to discover one of the most beautiful and most visited museums in the whole world, this visit, with the diversity of its' works of art on permanent display will enchant you. Try to imagine eight hundred years of history visually recounted through paintings, sculptures, Objects of Art, within a Medieval Decor where our Kings lived before their palaces became the last shelter of collections which came from the four corners of the world. | |
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Go through the aisles where Oriental Masterpieces as well as Greek,
Egyptian, Middle Ages, and up to the middle of the XIXth century mingle
beautifully with thousands of European Paintings from the XVIIIth to the
middle of the XIX century. You will be amaze to see the works by Henri Bellechose, Eugene Delacroix, Van Gogh, Poussin, Raphaël, etc. and the world renowned Leonard de Vinci's " La Joconde ", as well as many others. To kind of "catch your breath", stroll in the near by " Le Jardin des Tuileries ", where, on a straight perspective, you will see " La Place de la Concorde's Obelisk ", " l'Arc de Triomphe ", and in the distant background " L'Arche de la Defense ", Paris' business centre. |
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