Palais du Luxembourg, Paris
A richly decorated palace built for Marie de Medici in the early 17th century, currently the French Senate.
A richly decorated palace built for Marie de Medici in the early 17th century, currently the French Senate. For those interested in seeing a Parisian monument normally unavailable to the public, or for those interested in the inner workings of the French Government. The large Luxembourg Garden is open to the public year-round.
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Palais du Luxembourg and Nearby Sights on Map
Jardin Yitzhak Rabin
Nestled in the centre of the Parc Bercy is a lovely, and truly peaceful, garden with several waterworks and other high-quality landscape-art pieces
Boulevard St. Germain
Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Home and studio of the great Romantic painter from 1857 until his death in 1863, features works by the artist and exhibitions of his contemporaries' work
Luxembourg Gardens
The Jardin du Luxembourg is a formal French garden with lush lawns, tree-lined promenades, terraces, chestnut groves, and ponds over an area of 23 hectares
Left Bank
The Left Bank is the area to the south of the Seine River, comprising the arrondissements of Panthéon, Luxembourg, Palais-Bourbon, Gobelins, and Vaugirard
Musee National du Moyen Age
Housed in a 15th century abbey, alongside 1st century Gallo-Roman baths, the Musee National du Moyen Age has an extensive collection of medieval art and artifacts
La Sorbonne
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
The oldest church in Paris, founded in the year 542 by King Childebert
Pont des Arts
Eglise Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
It is a Melkite Greek Catholic parish church