Group · 6 Max
2 hrs 30 mins
With a collection of over 35,000 works on display, the Louvre in Paris’ stands as the largest, most influential, and most visited art museum in the world. While a single day does not suffice to fully explore its treasures, this tour offers you intimate access to all of its highlights. This semi-private tour ensures that you can easily navigate the museum in a small group with your expert guide.
Semi-Private tours and experiences are guaranteed six participants max.
Our prices always include tickets and reservations fees (no waiting in lines!)
Our tour guides and staff are selected experts and speak perfect English
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Eco-sustainable tourism, designed to respect and support local culture, art and traditions
During your Louvre tour, you’ll explore the most iconic paintings and sculptures located in two out of three of the museum’s expansive wings. Your guide will highlight influential works spanning various periods, including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Additionally, you’ll learn about the evolution of this 12th-century fortress and palace that transformed into France’s greatest museum.
In the Ancient Egypt collections, take a close look at the sleek granite Great Sphinx of Tanis. Discovered in an Egyptian temple in the 1800s, this piece is considered to be the biggest and best-preserved in any Western museum.
Next, delve into two globally recognized sculptures from Ancient Greece’s: the armless Venus de Milo and the headless Winged Victory of Samothrace. Despite missing some parts, these goddesses are universally considered some of the best surviving original Hellenistic sculptures.
Just a short walk from Venus de Milo you will get a chance to see some impressive Italian sculptures including Michelangelo’s powerful Rebellious Slave & Dying Slave as well as Canova’s passionate Cupid & Psyche.
Before experiencing Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, you’ll explore a few other eye-catching pieces the Louvre offers. This includes stops at Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast of Cana, Jacques-Louis David’s Coronation of Napoleon, and icons of French Romanticism like Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and Théodore Géricault’s Raft of Medusa.
Mona Lisa
Of all the thousands of paintings housed in the Louvre, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa remains the most popular and perplexing piece. Supposedly the portrait of a 16th-century Italian noblewoman, this painting has bewitched billions over the years and inspired countless songs, films, and novels. Your guide will shed light on how this painting became one of the most well-known art works in the world.
LivTours’ group size of max 6 participants is and always has been based on sustainable travel, and we are proud to be at the forefront of change and innovation in the industry. LivTours is committed to providing travelers with truly sustainable tours with the lowest possible environmental impact, all while supporting the local industries and people of each unique destination. To learn more about how you can actively support sustainable tourism and how LivTours is contributing, click here.
All LivTours Semi-Private Group Tours are limited to 6 guests per tour guide. Our commitment to maintaining our uniquely tiny group sizes can sometimes be a little tricky, mathematically speaking. For example, we want to ensure that traveling families and friends can tour together so on rare occasions we may add one or two guests in order to not split groups. On that same note, you may also find yourself on tour with less than six people! We thank you for your understanding and flexibility.
By selecting Choose Dates Later / Buy as Gift at booking, any tour can be purchased without fixed dates. This is the perfect option if you want to purchase your tour as a gift for a loved one, or if you are in the pre-planning phase of your vacation. After booking, you will receive a Travel Voucher Code and full instructions on how to schedule your tours when ready. Once your travel plans are confirmed, you can easily use the Travel Voucher Code on the LivTours website to formally schedule your tours. You can find out more here.
