Louvre Palace
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- Location
- Paris, France
- Year
- 1190
- Typology
- Civic
- Materials
- Concrete, Marble, Stone
- Context
- French Gothic Architecture, French Renaissance Architecture, Louis XIII Style, French Baroque Architecture, Neoclassicism, Baroque Revival, Second Empire Style, Modernism
- Map
- Open location
The Louvre Palace, often referred to simply as the Louvre, is a palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a large expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Originally a defensive castle, it has served several government-related functions in the past, including intermittently as a royal residence between the 14th and 18th centuries. It is now mostly used by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793.
