The last time I went to Paris it took me three days to explore the long galleries of the Musée du Louvre. This time, experience under my belt, we nailed it in a day.
Walking the great halls of this immense fortress-turned-palace-turned-museum, I wonder at the nobles who served here in an age long ago, the kings and queens who ruled from here, the artists who lived in this epic building. Was it just as grand before Napoleon I renovated and restructured it? In any matter, the Louvre is a work of art itself, from it’s medieval foundations to it’s French Renaissance architecture… let alone the fortune lying within its belly. No wonder the monarchy was overthrown!
Even the walls and ceilings are a work of art in itself.
