Jul
16
Louvre Museum: The Mystery of History
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The Louvre Museum is till date the most talked about and the most popularly visited museum in the world. Sheltering awesome art pieces from across the generations, Louvre is not only beautiful inside- it presents its ubiquitous charm to a casual onlooker too.
Built as a fortress in France under Phillips II, Louvre now houses more than 35,000 objects from prehistoric times to the modern day.
Though mostly known for the section on art and sculpture, the louver, other than being home to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Monalisa, also showcases Egyptian and Eastern antiquities, Roman, Greek and Etruscan sculptures, Islamic art forms and much more.
The Louvre Museum is perhaps all the more appealing to people because of all the controversies it has borne. The Louvre has been claimed by several races including the Israelis and the Jews but was finally retained by the French in their capital city. With Louvre, standing tall, you have no dearth of places to visit on your Paris trip.