Tuileries Garden
Tuileries Garden features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Paris. Give it roughly ~60 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type garden
- Suggested visit ~60 min
- Paris Paris guide
About Tuileries Garden
The grand formal garden stretching between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, designed by André Le Nôtre in 1664, dotted with sculptures and the perfect Paris walk.
The Tuileries Garden is the most elegant park in Paris, a formal French garden stretching for almost a kilometre between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde. Its name derives from the tuileries, tile factories, that occupied the site before Catherine de Médicis ordered a garden here in 1564. André Le Nôtre redesigned it in 1664 for Louis XIV, creating the rigorous formal design with its central allée, geometric parterres, round and octagonal ponds, and perfectly clipped trees that you see today.
The garden is an outdoor museum as well as a park: it contains over 100 sculptures, including bronzes by Aristide Maillol, classical statues, and works by contemporary artists. The Louvre connects to the garden through the Carrousel arch. At the Place de la Concorde end, the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Jeu de Paume gallery flank the entrance. The garden is the finest place in central Paris for an afternoon stroll, with its café terraces, children's playgrounds, pony rides, and the famous octagonal pond where children sail toy boats.
Did you know? The great axis from the Louvre through the Tuileries to the Arc de Triomphe and La Défense was designed by Le Nôtre to align with the setting sun on the equinox.
How long is a visit to Tuileries Garden?
Set aside roughly ~60 min for Tuileries Garden. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Tuileries Garden worth your time?
Tuileries Garden is among the 44 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Paris, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
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