The Louvre — 3-hour Extended Private Tour

Three hours to go beyond the classics. On top of the iconic masterpieces — the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory, the Coronation of Napoleon — your guide takes you to the Ancient Egypt department, the sumptuous Napoleon III apartments and many other dazzling works most visitors never find.

The Louvre essentially grew out of the royal collections. François I brought Italian paintings such as the Mona Lisa, Louis XIV commissioned and bought on a grand scale; the Revolution, Napoleon’s campaigns and 19th-century excavations in Greece, the Middle East and Egypt did the rest. Your guide will tell you these stories in front of the works themselves.