Louvre

Went to Louvre. That name is soo hard to pronounce ('luvr" as I understood at the final end). Not this but the next picture is taken on the right, vertical part. Museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century for the kings of France. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre as a place to display to royal collection. It became a museum 2 centuries ago

Across the river, close to Louvre was the French Institute

The Louvre / Louvre Museum. World largest museum. Visitors per year: over 9 miljon, almost 10 mln what makes is the second largest visited museum in the world after the Palace Museum in China. In 1970 the centuries-old Louvre Palace struggeled to cope with the rising number of visitors. Each wing had a different entrance, they were too small and the layout was so confusing that visitors struggeled to find entrance and OUTrance. Pyramids was completed in 1989 to expand and modernise the museum, as the main entrance to the museum

Museum opened in 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. They gathered more paintings thanks to Napoleon and museum was renamed Musee Napoleon but soon after they named it back. 

Height - about 22 m and its base measures just over 35 meters. 673 diamond-shaped and 118 triangular panels were specifically fabricated to make them completely clear. 128 steel girders and 16 steel cables that hold the panes together. Technology from high tech yachts was used to make them as small and undetectable as possible. Some people said pyramid has 666 glasses and it is devils work etc, but its false because it does not have 666 panes

That was the line before we entered Louvre. We went there quite early because we didn´t want to be the last ones in that line like they are

We arrived to the Louvre at 9:15 and went to the line. It was supposed to open at 10, but it was opened later.. We got in at 10:35. But the waiting wasn´t so bad because the sun was shining and we played one really fun game :)

Went in from the biggest pyramid, they checked our bag and then went down by an elevator and this is the view. We did not have to buy ticket because for EU members it is free. Three of us are EU members (Estonian, Slovak and Czech). Fiona (Macedonian) got in free also because we did one thing :D Gabi (Turkey) was the only one who had to pay

The same place what I told before, the vertical part

Fancy ass glasses

Corridor to Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa - most visited work of art in Louvre. Believed it is painted between 1503 and 1506

Dzii how many people were there

Luv that pic

Eeeeeeeyy

Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802) self-portrait

Haleluujah. We were so tired so we just layed down on a couch. I had a skirt but didn´t care :D Mostly I was hanging out with them. At the beggining we were together, then I left them behind and somehow I met them again and then we were together til the very end! 

"I haven´t slept like 10 hours" 

"I don´t like the things that prove I´m stupid" - talking about the rubix cube :DD

"Wooden stone"

You can leave your stuff in those storage boxes for free and also there is special place for holding umbrellas, like what? You put your own code and then unlock it with your code

The inverted pyramid. Creators made the pyramid, turned it upside down and put it right above a small stone pyramid

It was sah warm! 

This is next to Louvre, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. It was built between 1806-1808 to commemorate Napoleon´s military victories of the previuos year. Behind that is the London eye of Paris :D

Even the metro was designed similar to Louvre