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Louvre Castle
🇫🇷 France · 12th century
The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), was a castle (French: château fort) begun by Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris. Over time, it was expanded but was generally demolished above ground in stages between 1528 and 1660 to make way for expanding the Louvre Palace, while some parts of the castle's foundations were incorporated in construction of the later palace.
Text adapted from “Medieval Louvre Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Louvre Castle ranks #1,788 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #127 of the 276 mapped in France. Founded 1190, it is older than 84% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 194 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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