Paris, France
The Louvre is one of the world's largest museums & certainly the most visited, with more than 9.7 million visitors each year.
Around 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to ...