THE COLLINS FAMILY IN THE LOUVRE GUIDED BY BELÉN

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

The Grandma, for my birthday, gave me a present, the tickets for The Louvre Museum, and I invited all the family.

The Louvre Museum is in the center of Paris, next to the Sena River. It’s the National Museum of France, an old Palace of the French king.

Welcome to The Louvre Museum! 

In the middle of the courtyard, opposite the Jardin des Tuileries, across the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, it is the famous Glass Pyramid that it is the main entrance, but it has other doors: Porte des Lions, Passage Richelieu and 99, rue de Rivoli.

We go down in elevator under the Pyramid, in the lower ground floor. There we access to three wings: to the right is Denon wing, in front of it, is Richelieu wing and to the left is Sully wing.

In this ground, we visit Spanish, Italian and Northern European Sculptures, Egyptian antiquities, History of the Louvre and the Medieval Louvre.

In ground floor, we see Italian and Northern European Sculptures, Near Eastern antiquities, Pharaonic Egypt, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities. Is possible see Psyche and Cupid and the Colossal Statue of Ramesses II.

In the first floor, we visit decorative arts, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Spanish and Italian paintings, prints and drawings. Here is possible to see the painting of Mona Lisa.

In the last ground, we see paintings, prints and drawings of Greece, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland and Scandinavia. You can also see The Turkish bath.

Finally, all the family decide to go to lunch to the Ritz Hotel. 

Thanks a lot, Grandma. The family loves you!

Belén Collins @Bel85gg

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?