Jardin des Tuileries

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Jardin des Tuileries Description

One of the largest and best known parks in Paris is the Tuileries (Jardin des Tuileries). When Catherine de Médicis had a palace built in 1563 on a site extending along the whole length of what is now Avenue du Général-Lemonnier, close to the Louvre, she named it the Tuileries after the tile-works which had previously occupied the site. In 1664 Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, employed André Le Nôtre, later to be responsible for laying out the park at Versailles, to design the Tuileries Gardens. The palace itself was burned down during the Paris Commune in 1871 and was never rebuilt.

Coysevox's Baroque statues of winged horses guard the entrance on Place de la Concorde, which leads down, by terraces and ramps, to the large

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Hobbies & Activities category: Garden or botanic display; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain

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