Tuileries Garden

The Tuileries Garden is identifiable by its long, symmetrical central axis that creates a clear, open path from the Louvre Museum toward the Place de la Concorde. Stretching twenty-three hectares, this space is the oldest and largest public garden in Paris, defined by its orderly rows of trees, gravel walkways, and large ornamental ponds. The name originates from the medieval tile factories, or tuileries, that occupied this site before Queen Catherine de’ Medici commissioned a palace and an Italian-style garden here in fifteen sixty-four.