Tuileries GardenJardin des Tuileries

Tuileries Garden began in 1564 as Catherine de’ Medici’s palace garden and was reshaped in 1664 by André Le Nôtre into the disciplined geometry that became the classical model of the French formal garden. After the Tuileries Palace burned in 1871, the grounds survived as a public promenade on Paris’s central axis between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, where statues, clipped allées, and broad basins turn royal spectacle into everyday civic space.