Louvre Museum Facts

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Louvre Museum Facts
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• Louvre Museum is Paris s most visited
  attractions which welcomes approximately 9.3
  million visitors early. The reason for its
  popularity is its collection of 35,000 priceless
  masterpieces and antiques, therefore offers the
  most extensive art galleries for its breadth of
  subjects, which range from the 6th century BC to
  19th century.
• Some Interesting Facts About the Louvre
• It is the biggest museum in the world and is so
  big that it is humanly impossible to see all the
  museum has to offer in one visit. You might be
  wanted to know how long would it take you to
  visit all around?
• Well, if you have 100 days spare then you could
  probably squeeze in every piece of art, but you
  could only spend 30 seconds on each piece. The
  museum offers in total 380,000 pieces. But all of
  the collection is not exhibited to the public.

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• The Louvre is so popular that it welcomes around
  15,000 visitors per day among which 70 are
  foreign tourists. In 2014, the Louvre welcomed
  over 9.3 million visitors, which is the most
  people, the museum has welcomed since its
  opening, get more at interesting facts about
  Louvre Museum.
• Originally, The Musée du Louvre was not a
  museum. It was a fortress which was built in
  1190. In the 16th century, it turned from a
  fortress into a royal palace. In 1793, after the
  French Monarchy moved to the Palace of
  Versailles, that the first Louvre museum was
  opened to the public, and offered only 537
  paintings.
• Mona Lisa is undoubtedly one of the most famous
  pieces of art in the Louvre, from all over the
  world people are traveling to the museum to catch
  a glimpse of the world-famous painting.

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• Maybe you dont know about the Mona Lisa that it
  is not as big as everyone thinks, as the
  dimension of the painting is actually just 21 x
  30 inches (53 x 77 cms) which is a little bit
  larger than an A2 piece of paper. Also, the Mona
  Lisa has its own bodyguards and is protected by
  bulletproof glass read about Pantheon Facts.
• Mona Lisas identity is a mystery in itself, and
  no-one has ever been come to a decision as to why
  she is smiling that way. Many believe that she
  was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, as her
  real name in Italian was Lisa Gioconda. Others
  believe Mona Lisa is a self-portrait and an
  allusion of Leonardo da Vincis supposed
  homosexuality.
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