Carrousel du Louvre

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View of the eponymous Place du Carrousel. In the center is the square glass surface of the inverted pyramid , through which the shopping center below receives daylight. In the background you can see the Pavillon de Flore of the Louvre and in the distance the Eiffel Tower.

Carrousel du Louvre is the name of an underground shopping arcade in Paris . It is located on Rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The theater of the Comédie-Française and the various museums in the Palais du Louvre are in the immediate vicinity . Operators of the shopping center is to the Group Unibail-Rodamco company belonging Viparis .

description

Large parts of the 10,200 m² shopping center Carrousel du Louvre are located under the Place du Carrousel between the Marsan wing and the Flora wing of the Louvre. The foundations of the medieval castle complex, a predecessor of today's Palais du Louvre, were exposed and preserved under this open space during the renovation and expansion work of the Louvre, which began in the 1980s. These archaeological foundations are partially visible to the public in the underground shopping arcade opened in 1993. In this exhibition area, sculptures from the facade of the destroyed Palais des Tuileries are also on display.

In the center of the Carrousel du Louvre is the inverted glass pyramid , the square surface of which marks the center of the Place du Carrousel at street level and the top of which directs the daylight into the shopping arcade. Around this central point and in the corridors branching off from it, there are various restaurants and shops. In addition to numerous suppliers of the textile industry and galleries, there is also the sales rooms of the computer manufacturer Apple, which opened in France in 2009 as the first Apple Store . Connected to the Carrousel du Louvre are the in-house convention center Viparis Carrousel du Louvre and the 600-seat Amphithéâtre Rohan lecture hall belonging to the École du Louvre . Access to the Musée du Louvre is also possible through the Carrousel du Louvre passage . The shopping center has 615 parking spaces and the closest metro station is Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre .

In 2013, around 16.7 million visitors came to the Carrousel du Louvre . It is one of the most visited shopping centers in France. On February 3, 2017, a man carried out a knife attack at an entrance to the Carrousel du Louvre , which, like the neighboring Louvre, was closed for several hours. The French government assumed a terrorist attack.

  • Foundation walls of the medieval Louvre castle, in the background shops and restaurants of the shopping arcade.

  • Fragment of the sculpture La Liberté from the destroyed Palais des Tuileries, exhibited in the Carrousel du Louvre

  • Top of the glass inverted pyramid in the Carrousel du Louvre

The Salon du Carrousel du Louvre

Every year the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, an artists' association founded in 1861 by Louis Martinet and Théophile Gautier, hosts a salon in the Carrousel du Louvre. In 2018, 600 artists exhibited their works in front of around 15,000 visitors. The Salon des Beaux Arts shows painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers and illustrators and offers its guests a comprehensive overview of the world of contemporary art.

Gold medals

  • 2018: Walther Jaques
  • 2017: Thomas Dartigues, Tae Hue
  • 2016: Jean-Jacques Baumé, Yo Coquelin, Baichuan Dong, Jiaying He
  • 2013: Cao Jun

Web links

Commons : Carrousel du Louvre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le premier Apple Store français article on the website of www.20minutes.fr of 5 June 2008, accessed on February 8, 2017 ( Memento of 26 December 2009 at the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Overview of the most visited shopping centers in France on the website www.challenges.fr, accessed on 8 February 2017 ( Memento of 22 March 2015, Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Paris, the attack on the Louvre and many questions . Report by Deutsche Welle from February 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Histoire et presentation de la Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. In: Salon des Beaux Arts. Accessed February 7, 2019 (Fri-FR).
  5. ^ Salon des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2018 at Carrousel du Louvre - Sortiraparis.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Le Salon des Beaux Arts de la Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. In: Salon des Beaux Arts. Accessed February 7, 2019 (Fri-FR).
  7. ^ Salon des Beaux Arts 2018 - Communiqué de presse. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Le palmarès du Salon des Beaux Arts 2017: un rond-point d'émotions • Salon des Beaux Arts. In: Salon des Beaux Arts. December 13, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2019 (fr-fr).
  9. ↑ Les artistes primés en 2016 • Salon des Beaux Arts. In: Salon des Beaux Arts. Accessed February 7, 2019 (Fri-FR).
  10. ↑ Cao Jun Biography - Cao Jun on artnet. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '40.7 "  N , 2 ° 20' 2.2"  E