Paris hotels near Louvre Museum
The legendary Ritz Hotel is close to the Louvre Museum. Hotel Thérèse is a lovely hotel near Louvre Museum. Very central for sightseeing and shopping in Paris, these boutique hotels are a few minutes walk from the Tuileries Gardens and the Palais Royal Gardens. The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Opéra Garnier, rue Saint-Honoré fashion shops and the Galeries Lafayette department store are all at walking distance. The Seine River quays are next door. Paris Hotels.
The legend: Ritz Paris hotel
The Ritz Paris was created in a private mansion, located on one of the most beautiful squares in Paris, at 15 Place Vendôme, which can be seen from certain rooms. It is no coincidence that the Ritz has been a historic monument since May 17, 1930. Since 1979, the Egyptian billionaire, Mohamed Al-Fayed, has owned this hotel. The Ritz was the first hotel in the world to have electricity, a telephone and a bathroom in each room, elevators and a ventilation system. For the time, it was unprecedented! The Ritz also had the largest private pool in the capital. César Ritz declared to his architects "It must be the latest in elegance, the first modern hotel in Paris. I want it hygienic, comfortable and beautiful because he dreamed of a house to which he would be proud to attach his name. César Ritz then equipped his hotel with period style furniture and all modern comforts. Its gourmet restaurant "L’Espadon", which took its name from César Ritz's favorite dish, was considered the temple of French gastronomy on Place Vendôme and was recently supervised by 4-star chef Nicolas Sale. It was the only hotel in Paris with a school of gastronomy, the Ritz Escoffier school, named after the inventor of fishing Melba. Famous people used to walk through the door of the hotel, and even stay there year-round. Each of them left traces and memories. Coco Chanel, who settled there for more than thirty years, had personalized her apartments and had placed her own furniture there. Her suite still bears and will always bear hers name. In 1994, the bar was renamed "Hemingway" because it was for the famous writer that one of the bartenders had invented there the Bloody Mary. Many other writers liked the Ritz, like Marcel Proust. Audrey Hepburn shot her film “Love in the afternoon” at the Ritz It is also in this legendary hotel that Lady Diana was last seen before the car accident, in August 1997, which costed her her life with her companion Dodi Al-Fayed, son of Mohamed Al-Fayed. The legend has a price.
Paris 75001 France
Hotel Thérèse
This 4-star hotel is at walking distance to the Louvre Museum at the heart of the chic right bank. The street is very quiet. This charming boutique hotel offers guest rooms with a refined decor and free Wi-Fi. The air-conditioned guest rooms are equipped with a minibar and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. Each room has a private bathroom including a hairdryer.
Paris 75001 France
Hotel Thérèse is very close to Louvre Museum
Hotels near Louvre Museum Paris
The Louvre Museum on the banks of the Seine river in Paris is a beautiful French royal palace and the world's most visited museum. It is also the world's largest museum. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). The Louvre Museum displays the Mona Lisa, probably the most famous painting in the world.
The Louvre is also the heart of a great Paris district with Musée d'Orsay, Opera Garnier, Paris Departments Stores and Les Halles Shopping Mall within walking distance. The area further boasts two pleasant parks: the royal Tuileries Gardens and the intimate Jardin du Palais Royal.
Stay in a great appartment or hotel near Louvre Museum and immerse yourself in the heart of the city.
Les Halles Shopping Mall is close to the Louvre
Louvre and Louvre district
One of the world's top art museum and certainly the largest, the Louvre is also the most visited with over 10 million visitors every year.
Housed in the former Palace of the French Kings, a beautiful monument by itself, the Louvre displays the famous Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, attracting crowds of visitors. It has many other first class European paintings from Italy, France, Flanders, Netherlands and England. It also displays superb collections of ancient Arabic, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. Each department of Le Louvre is a museum by itself and would justify a visit of half a day. The Louvre.
The Louvre district also boasts the Tuileries Gardens, the Seine river banks. On the other side of the Seine river is the famous Musée d'Orsay and its impressionist collections.
Louvre and Seine river banks