The site of the Tuileries Gardens, inscribed in 1991 on the World Heritage List of UNESCO, is built in 2005 at the national domain of the Louvre.
Several tile factories stood where Catherine de Medici had built from 1564 the palace of “Tuileries”, provided a sumptuous garden compartments, parallel to the Seine. In 1664, the OURS redraws the French and the prospect is open to the west to become the Champs-Elysées. Created in the late nineteenth century on the site of the Tuileries Palace, burned down during the Commune (1871), the Carrousel garden has been redesigned and rebuilt by Jacques Wirtz slab above the galleries of the Louvre.
The current plan of the Tuileries is organized around a wide central aisle marking the perspective of the Great Axe, which now extends from the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Defense. Beautiful trees representing more than twenty species (larcicio pine, white mulberry, Judas tree, etc …). A rich sculpture adorns the various sectors of the premises. Established in 1964 and 1965 at the initiative of André Malraux, eighteen statues of Maillol are installed in the garden of the Carousel. It also discovered the works of Coustou, Rodin, Coysevox, Carpeaux, but also of modern sculptors like Max Ernst, Henri Laurens, Giacometti and contemporary works soon.
From March to December, free tours of the garden are organized (in French only): the history of the garden, highlights and anecdotes narrated by monitoring officers of the Tuileries. Every Sunday from March to December: appointment at 15:30 at the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel du Louvre. Duration about 1:15.
A fun fair moved there every summer in July and August.