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It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II.
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas (tan). This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Texas. The date of establishment of each area code is indicated in parentheses: [1] 210: San Antonio area; overlays with 726 (November 1, 1992) 214: Dallas area, overlays with 469, 972, and 945 (October 1947)
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state ...
While this area along the Seine had been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the Louvre's history starts around 1190 with its first construction as the Louvre Castle defending the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus, the then new city-wall of Paris. The Louvre's oldest section still standing above ground, its palatial Lescot Wing ...
Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Dallas, Texas and most of the eastern portion of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex The area codes are assigned in an overlay complex to a single numbering plan area that was the core of one of the original area codes of 1947, area code 214.
Inside pictures: a view of the Louvre Museum in Paris from the underground lobby of the pyramid. The pyramid in the Cour Napoléon shown on a schematic of the Louvre. The Grand Louvre project was announced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the President of France. In 1983 the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei was selected as its architect ...
The Grand Louvre project cost over a billion euros. It more than tripled the Louvre's surface area, from 57,000 to almost 180,000 square meters. Within that, the exhibition space almost doubled from 31,000 to 60,000 square meters, and the number of exhibits on display increased from 20,600 to over 34,000.
The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), [1] 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.