Tuileries Garden

The Tuileries Garden is located in the heart of Paris, between Place de la Concorde and the Louvre. The idea to create a garden in this place belongs to Queen Catherine de Medici. Back in the XV century it was the outskirts of the city, where the landfill was located and clay was mined. In the middle of the XVI century began the first works on the improvement of the territory.

The garden is heterogeneous in structure, each gardener of the new king remade it at the request of his master. If Louis XVIII at the beginning of the XVII century used the garden as a territory for hunting, then in the 60s of the same century, under the leadership of the eminent landscape architect Andre Lenotre, the garden began to acquire its modern appearance. Over time, terraces, fountains, ponds, alleys, flower beds, statues and sculptures appeared in the Tuileries Garden. In 1667, at the request of the famous storyteller Charles Perrault, the garden was opened to the public, and a century later, in 1780, the first public toilets appeared here.

The modern Tuileries Garden is a huge landscaped area where idle Parisians and guests of the city stroll. There are clowns, street artists, musicians. In the western part of the garden is the Orangerie Museum, which exhibits a rich collection of Impressionist paintings. In the garden there are also authentic sculptures of the XIX-XX centuries.

During the Second World War, the park was hit by two shells, but today it is a pleasant place for a romantic walk.