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 ...

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

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 ...

Airbnb and the Louvre are offering travelers a different take on a night at the museum through the chance to win a sleepover at this famous Parisian attraction. On April 30, one winner and a guest ...

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 ...

Paris’s Louvre Museum has returned Hans Holbein’s portrait of Anne of Cleves to the Richelieu Wing after the 1539 painting was removed for conservation and cleaning. The portrait has been in ...