Tuileries Gardens (Paris, France)

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The famous Tuilties gardens were originally laid in Italian style in-line with Catherine de Medici's palace in 1564. Located between the Musee de Louvre and the Place de La Concord, in its now classical French layout, the Jardin des Tuileries offer a view of many major buildings and squares, including the Concord Square, the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, and far in the distance even the Arc de Triomphe. In 1649 Louis XIV commissioned his favourite landscape gardener Andre Le Notre to turn the gardens into a fashionable promenading area. Today the carefully aliened fountains and ponds have undergone much needed renovation with the addition of children's playgrounds and bowling areas.