Louvre but 1 museum of so many in Paris
(WorldNews Entertainment)

With two miles of facade in the heart of Paris, the magnificent Louvre Museum is the largest art museum in the world. Erected as a fortress at what was the edge of town in the 12th century (its foundations can be toured in the basement), it was revamped as a royal residence in the 16th century. The Louvre remained the repository of the royal art collection even after Louis XIV moved the court to Versailles and opened it as a museum in 1793. A renovation in the 1980s and `90s included the addition of I.M....