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Views of Paris (2) - Le Louvre 巴黎掠影(2)—羅浮宮

Le Louvre is a HUGE museum! The square in front of Le Louvre forms a continuous stretch of open space with the adjacent Jardin des Tuileries. The glass pyramid designed by the architect I. M. Peh lies in the centre of the square, surrounded by a few fountains. The pyramid is only the entrance to the Museum; the exhibitions are actually housed in the three buildings around the square. The inside of those 3 buildings is like a maze! What’s there in Le Louvre that draws in so many tourists? First, there’s the famous resident Mona Lisa. Her gentle smile exerts an inexplicable force attracting the trail and attention of visitors who come to admire and lavish praises on her. There is also a voluminous amount of other exhibits that cater for all sorts of interests. My friend spent so much time on paintings, which are unfortunately things I cannot appreciate very fully and nearly bored me after seeing so many of them in such a short time. Luckily Le Louvre was also full of sculptures that inte