THE GARDEN'S STORY
A royal garden that became a Paris ritual.
Created in the 16th century and reshaped over centuries, the Tuileries sits at the meeting point of French garden design, public life and the great central Paris axis.
1564
Catherine de' Medici begins the garden.
The garden takes its name from the tile works that once occupied the area. It began beside the Tuileries Palace, west of the Louvre, and evolved as royal tastes and the city changed around it.
The landscape later became closely associated with André Le Nôtre's formal French garden approach: long perspectives, geometry and carefully ordered space.
TODAY
Part garden, part route through Paris.
The palace is gone, but the garden remains one of the most recognisable spaces in central Paris. It connects major museums, public squares, the Seine and the historic axis stretching west.
This website is an independent travel guide designed to make that location useful: practical visit information, live nearby events, and travel-planning tools around the garden.