Paris: Louvre Museum Guided Tour with Free Seine Cruise Tickets

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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
• Timed entrance ticket with a professional experienced guide to discover the works of art, from Ancient Egypt to the Renaissance
• Cruise along the UNESCO-listed riverbanks of the Seine and admire the Louvre, Notre Dame and more
• Embark on a 2-hour live guided tour at the Louvre Museum& a 1-hour audio guided tour along the Seine River cruise

Join an amazing three-hour journey to explore the masterpieces of world’s greatest art collection inside this Renaissance palace including the legendary Mona Lisa painting and Venus de Milo sculpture with fast-track access and then to discover Paris from on the iconic Seine river cruise with audio guides.

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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Paris, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours



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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
• Timed entrance ticket with a professional experienced guide to discover the works of art, from Ancient Egypt to the Renaissance
• Cruise along the UNESCO-listed riverbanks of the Seine and admire the Louvre, Notre Dame and more
• Embark on a 2-hour live guided tour at the Louvre Museum& a 1-hour audio guided tour along the Seine River cruise

Join an amazing three-hour journey to explore the masterpieces of world’s greatest art collection inside this Renaissance palace including the legendary Mona Lisa painting and Venus de Milo sculpture with fast-track access and then to discover Paris from on the iconic Seine river cruise with audio guides.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Louvre Museum, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France

From the point of the meeting, at the courtyard, you will receive a broad base of understanding of this glass building and the remarkable museum as you walk your way straight through a priority line to the security check without queuing in to enter the museum as its most renowned and most visited museum of the world.

Once inside the doors of the museum, the guide will provide you with a little insight to the history of how King Charles V and Philippe II chose this palace as their residence before it opened as a museum. As the guide lead you through the corridors, you’ll discover the vast collections of arts and sculptures, as the collection is organized by themes into various departments; Oriental Antiquities department, Egyptian Antiquities department, Greek Antiquities department, Roman and Etruscan departments, and also a part on the history of the actual palace, including the Louvre during the Middle Ages, Islamic art, paintings, sculptures and graphic art.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Louvre Museum, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France

The guide will show you the most important and famous masterpieces as well as some of the lesser now beauties that you might have passed without notice in this museum. The first stop will be at the lower ground floor to see the famous sculptures such as Venus de Milo the ancient Greek statue, Seated Scribe the ancient Egyptian sculpture and Winged Victory of Samothrace, a Hellenistic sculpture and more on. The guide will also fill you in with the details of the many thousand years old sculptures of the Egyptian Antiquities, artwork, painting and sculptural wonders by Michelangelo, and other famous artists in the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities. You’ll also admire the richly furnished and decorated salons preserved from the Second Empire, the last time the Louvre was home to a sovereign.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Louvre Museum, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France

Afterward, you’ll move on to the ground floor of the museum, where you admire more of the Greek and Egyptian masterpieces as the guide will explain you the hidden story behind all of these artworks. You’ll visit the first floor of the museum the most crowded and busiest floor of the Louver. Here you might appreciate the decorative arts collection of French Crown Jewels, Silverware, Semi-precious gems and more from the early Middle Ages to the first half of the 19th century.

The tours most awaited and the last stop will be at the department of paintings, to see the world-famous painting of, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the guide will give an explanation and anecdote about this enigmatic image and also the guide will introduce you to the Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix and the Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese and many other paintings.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Parking – Port de la Bourdonnais, Port de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris, France

After the two hours guided tour ends, the guide will escort you to the docks near the Seine river and embark on a cruise along the Seine River for one hour (audio guide in the English Language ONLY). After visiting the Louvre museum this is the perfect tour to relax, so sit back and pick up your individual headphones to listen to the commentary (audio guide) lyrics, and music evoking the city’s past, that will be broadcast through them as you Cruise along the Seine River. You’ll have the chance to admire the famous monuments of Paris as you follow the flow of the river through the city. From the water, you’ll enjoy spectacular views of the Musée d’Orsay, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, Concorde Square, the Chaillot Palace, and other major sites as you cruise.

After a pleasant relax and enjoyable hour on board you’ll cruise back to the same starting point (the docks in front of the Louver museum).

Duration: 1 hour



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