Tuileries: history and sights
Served by: metro line 1.
Did you know?
Located beneath the garden of the same name, a former royal garden designed by André Le Nôtre for Catherine de Médicis and later reshaped for Louis XIV. The station's décor evokes the tile kilns once on this land, before it became one of Paris's most visited public gardens.
Anecdote
The Tuileries garden owes its name to the tile kilns that once stood on this land.
Around Tuileries
- Angelina, 50 m away — A Belle Époque tea house from 1903 facing the Tuileries, famous for its thick hot chocolate known as "l'Africain" and its Mont-Blanc cake.
- Jardin des Tuileries, 150 m away — A formal French garden designed by Le Nôtre in the 17th century, linking the Louvre to Place de la Concorde.
- Musée de l'Orangerie, 400 m away — A museum home to Claude Monet's famous Water Lilies, displayed in two specially designed oval rooms.
- Place Vendôme, 350 m away — A 17th-century royal square lined with prestigious jewellers, dominated by the Vendôme column erected by Napoleon.
- Pont Royal, 450 m away — The third oldest bridge in Paris after Pont Neuf and Pont Marie, listed as a historic monument since 1939: it once gave direct access to the Tuileries palace.