Jardin des Tuileries

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Jardin des Tuileries is a downtown garden with tree alleys, flower beds, and a few ponds, teeming with sculptures. There is also a fun park with various rides and a Ferris Wheel that offers panoramic views of the Paris cityscape. You can find two museums next to Place de la Concorde. Those are the only remains of the Tuileries Palace, destroyed during the Paris Commune uprising in 1871. One is Orangerie, exhibiting the celebrated Water-lilies series by Claude Monet. Auguste Renoir, Maurice Utrillo, Pablo Picasso, and Amadeo Modigliani are some other represented painters. The other one is Jeu de Paume, displaying contemporary art. Next to Louvre is the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, topped with a copy of the Horses of Saint Mark's located in Venice, Italy. The monument also introduces the troops of the Napoleonic Great Army (Grande Armee). (Image by Christelle PRIEUR from Pixabay – https://pixabay.com/photos/paris-large-wheel-merry-go-round-4593925/)