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Louvre Palace

Palaces and Aristocratic Residences

The Louvre Palace, often called simply the Louvre, is a palace on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a large expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Originally a defensive castle, it served several government related functions over the centuries, including intermittently as a royal residence between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. It is now used mostly by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793.

Facts
Building Type
Palace 1
Location
Paris, France 1
Completed Year
1190 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Palace 1
Connections

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Palace, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Baroque Revival Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Louvre Palace
Neoclassical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Louvre Palace
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Louvre Palace
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead paragraph
    a palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a large expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois
  • standing status determination, wikipedia summary
    The Louvre's oldest section still standing above ground, its palatial Lescot Wing, dates from the late 1540s, when Francis I started the replacement of the greatly expanded medieval castle with a new design inspired by classical antiquity and Italian Renaissance architecture.
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical (one of several period wings)
  • In Style: Baroque Revival Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neo-Baroque (one of several period wings)
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2. Wikidata: Louvre Palace
  • Wikidata Q1075988, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q1075988, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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