So youngly Guccio Gucci developed competences within the fashion field and came nearer the luxury world working into palaces. In 1921 Gucci’s brand was founded and a first shop opened in Florence offered saddlery products, luggage and riding accessories. This first shop was followed by many others and the brand branched out quickly.
Once a medieval fortress, then a royal palace, and today a universal museum, the Louvre is the most visited art museum in the world, welcoming close to nine million visitors a year. Set in the heart of the 1st arrondissement, between the Seine and the Tuileries Garden, it displays some 35,000 works across more than 70,000 m²…. Read more »
Famous the world over, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées runs for almost two kilometres from Place de la Concorde to Place Charles-de-Gaulle. Nicknamed “the world’s most beautiful avenue”, it blends gardens, palaces, luxury boutiques, legendary cafés and theatres. Walking it on foot, from Concorde up to the Arc de Triomphe, remains one of the finest introductions to Paris…. Read more »
During the second part of the 16th century, the Regent of France named Catherine de Medicis at the time, had the Tuileries Palace built on wilderness lands neighbouring the Louvre. Today, from that royal and imperial mansion only gardens remain. In fact, the monument was burnt during the Paris Commune of 1871, a social conflict… Read more »