Let’s take a walk through the Tuileries Gardens!

A visit to the city of romance, Paris, is a must. Among the compulsory stops in the capital city of France you’ll always count the beautiful park we’ll talk about today. Let’s take a walk through the Tuileries Gardens!

The Tuileries Gardens is one of the most emblematic tourist attraction in Paris, a superbe public garden situated outside the Louvre Museum, near the Place de la Concorde. The gardens are impressive not only for the geometrical, impeccable vegetation, but also for the countless sculptures and fountains.

Coysevox, the great Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet and more recently Rodin all left their mark, their artwork being on display here.

Le Jardin des Tuileries (which translates into “the garden of tiles”) was built in 1564, being commissioned by widow Queen Catherine de Medicis. Louis XIV turned the Tuileries Palace into his home and built a modern garden here in 1664. After the French Revolution, the gardens were open to the public.

Today, the Tuileries Gardens offer a breathtaking panoramic view over the center of the city and hosts two museums: le Musee de L’Orangerie (an old greenhouse designed in 1852 by Firmin Bourgeois) and the Gallery of Jeu de Paume, which features photography alongside modern displays of visual art and presentations. This latter museum was originally intended as an army storehouse and then turned into a public gallery in the year 1927.

If you choose to simply take a stroll around the gardens, a good half hour will be necessary. But this walk will truly be memorable, if you think of the fact that the French Sun King used to stroll around this place as well.

To get to the Tuileries, you can take the Metro, hire a car in Paris or, probably most efficient of all, you can book a Paris taxi transfer to take you comfortably to your destination.