1 Which French monarch, an avid art collector, razed his old castle- fortress to build a new palace that he called The Louvre ...

Instead of roaming through the Louvre in Paris, why not take a day trip to the Old World castles that line the continent’s ...

The Louvre castle as it looked in the 16th century in the manuscript Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. . An 1850 artwork titled Modern Paris shows the Tuileries, the Louvre and Rue de Rivoli.

As part of the fortification, the moated Louvre Castle monitored entry from the river Seine just as the Tower of London did with the Thames. The base of its "Grosse Tour", a large tower that ...

It replaced a medieval structure and “Run the Louvre” traces this lineage by finishing with some cardio at the foot of the old castle walls. Running through the end of May, the tours begin ...

The Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff Saturday after receiving bomb threats. The government has put France on high security alert after a fatal school stabbing by a ...

France’s famed Louvre museum and Versailles Palace both closed Saturday after bomb threats as the country remains on its highest level of alert for terrorism after a fatal Friday incident ...

The Louvre in Paris has become increasingly open about works in its collection that were looted by the Nazis. In late 2017, it opened a dedicated display for orphaned works that had been looted or ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has added a “national treasure” to its collection four years after it was discovered during a house clearance. “Christ Mocked” by the Florentine painter Cimabue ...

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition ...