tuilleries Garden

The Tuileries Garden is defined by its precise, gravel-lined geometric paths and rows of orange trees kept in square wooden crates. Catherine de Medici commissioned these grounds in fifteen sixty-four to accompany the Tuileries Palace, naming them for the tile kilns that previously occupied the site. When the palace burned during the Paris Commune in eighteen seventy-one, the garden remained. It stayed as an open public space, stretching from the Louvre toward the Place de la Concorde, framed by high stone walls.