L'Arc du Carroussel, The Concorde and L'Arc de Triomphe seen from the Louvre Pyramide on a beautiful spring sunday morning

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The Tuileries garden is the most central park in Paris. It stretches its "à la française" alleys and lawns along the Seine river from the Louvre museum to the Concorde square.
Designed in 1664 by Le Notre, the gardener of king of France Louis the 14th and the Versailles park designer, the Tuileries garden is spread with basins and statues.
Recently renovated and totally separated from car traffic, the Tuileries garden is part of a spectacular and historic perspective from the Louvre palace to the Arc de Triomphe on a straight line which includes the Champs Elysées and the Concorde square.
A centuries long effort by the kings of France to structure and embellish their Louvre palace and the city of Paris.

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The Tuileries garden is the most central park in Paris. It stretches its "à la française" alleys and lawns along the Seine river from the Louvre museum to the Concorde square.
Designed in 1664 by Le Notre, the gardener of king of France Louis the 14th and the Versailles park designer, the Tuileries garden is spread with basins and statues.
Recently renovated and totally separated from car traffic, the Tuileries garden is part of a spectacular and historic perspective from the Louvre palace to the Arc de Triomphe on a straight line which includes the Champs Elysées and the Concorde square.
A centuries long effort by the kings of France to structure and embellish their Louvre palace and the city of Paris.

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A vertical stitch of 3 images of the Louvre Pyramide using PTGui

Dan Brown incorporated it in his best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code

Louvre Pyramid is the large metal and glass pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre and has in the meantime become a landmark for the city of Paris.
Commissioned by the French president François Mitterrand, it was built in 1989 by the architect I. M. Pei from New York, who was responsible for the design of the Miho Museum in Japan among others. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 meters (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 meters (115 feet). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.

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An horizontal Stitch of 3 images of the Concorde ( made with PTGui)

The "Place de la Concorde" is a magnificent 8 hectares square in between the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries garden and alongside the Seine river in Paris.Built by architect Jacques-Ange Gabriel in 1763 to celebrate the glory of the then almighty king Louis XV, it saw the beheading of his successor and grandson Louis XVI on January 21st 1793 during the French revolution!In the middle of the square, the obelisk, 3200 years old, comes from the ruins of the temple at Luxor and was offered in 1829 by Mohammed Ali, Viceroy of Egypt to French king Charles X

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