The Palais du Louvre opens onto a vast esplanade of 28 hectares: the Jardin des Tuileries, which can reach the Place de la Concorde. 360 paris gardens. In this place, the clay soil, where once settled tile factory, built a palace that the last kings of France lived. It was burned in 1871 and the Louvre, close, narrowly escaped the disaster. It is now a park decorated with a beautiful set of statues, large trees, ponds. It says the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel said based on Roman Arch of Septimius Severus and celebrating the victories of Napoleon 1st. paris under snow picts. De l'Arc perspective extends the Champs Elysees to the Grande Arche de la Defense. tuileries garden 360 picture