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Hotel near Louvre Museum
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Hôtel Bellevue
L’Hôtel Bellevue, un hôtel de 3 étoiles entièrement rénové en 2003, est bien situé au pied du Sacré Cœur dans le quartier Montmartre, avec ses cafés et restaurants pleins d’ambiance et d’atmosphère dans les environs immédiats. On a accès direct à tous les divertissements touristiques en partant du métro Anvers, qui n’est qu’à deux arrêts de la Gare du Nord, et pas loin de l’Etoile (Champs-Elysées) et Opéra.
The Louvre Museum
Near to the Jardin des Tuileries, the Louvre is today the Palace of Arts and holds one of the richest museums in the world with a collection which ranges from Egyptian art of 5000 BC to nineteenth-century work with seven departments: Oriental and Islamic Antiquities; Egyptian Antiquities; Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities; Painting (European paintings which range from 1400 to 1900, work of Italian Renaissance); Sculpture; Decorative Arts; and Graphic Arts.
The collections are distributed among three big sections which correspond to the 2 wings and to the Cour Carrée: Denon, Richelieu, Sully.
Not to miss:
• Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
• The Belle Jardinière, by Raphaël
• Portrait du Roi of Titien
• The Noces of Cana
• The Venus of Milo (Sully wing)
• Egyptian Antiquities
• Greek Antiquities
In 1981 President Mitterrand initiated a rehabilitation project called Le Grand Louvre, which the visible part is the Glass Pyramid designed by famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei.
The other major development is underground - a vast space stretching from the Hall Napoleon Pyramid to beyond the Arc du Carrousel, known as the "Espace Carrousel du Louvre. The Gallery of the Carrousel du Louvre associates a museum with a shopping centre of 16000 m2.
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