Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Louvre

So if you have read the Da Vinci Code...or if you paid attention in school.....you know that the Mona Lisa is in the Louvre Museum.....
We were set to pay Mona a visit..but apparently things are tough all over....the security guards were on strike and the museum was closed the day we were there....go figure...but we did at least get to see it and the pyramid in front....


The Louvre is horse-shoe shaped....and was a palace at one time that dates back to 1200. It was originally built as a defense fortress ....and converted into a palace by some of the following kings

This is looking around





This is an entrance portal and all that is left from yet another palace that burned down in the 1800s.....

1 comment:

oostie said...

Can't believe the Louvre was closed! Crazy!