the Louvre began as a royal fortress. During the 16th century, Francis I demolished the old fortress and rebuilt it as a Renaissance-style palace. The building housed royalty until the 1600s ...

The Louvre, a former royal palace and the world’s largest, most-visited museum, displays some 35,000 pieces dating from 7000BC to the mid-19th century. Everyone gets lost and it doesn’t matter ...

Though you don't necessarily have to visit the apartments to get a taste of what it was like to be a royal. Before it was a museum, the Louvre served as a royal residence for a number of French ...

The Louvre in Paris opened its first-ever fashion exhibition on Friday, seeking to draw new, younger audiences to the world's most popular museum. The show, called "Louvre Couture", welcomed its ...

Renovation work at the former royal palace is expected to be very costly and technically complicated, but the cost of proposed upgrades has not yet been laid out. Half of the Louvre’s budget is ...

The Louvre communication service said no one was hurt and no incident was reported. Paris police said officers searched the museum after it received written bomb threats. The former royal palace ...

Doechii, Michelle Yeoh, Dev Patel and more stars mingled with fashion’s celebrities at the first fashion-fabulous Grand Dîner ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 8. A protest took place in central Paris against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to send ...

While Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia actually live at Drottningholm Palace (some 20 minutes west of Stockholm), Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace) serves as their workplace and is the ...