1 Carrousel du Louvre Defensive discovery
ost visitors to Paris make a beeline for the Louvre, and rightly so: the palace houses one of the world's great art collections. But while you're there, consider a stop at a site that came to light far more recently. During the major renovation project at the Louvre in the 1980s and 90s, when the glass pyramid was installed, a shopping mall was built beneath it – the Carrousel du Louvre. And it was during these excavations that workers discovered the foundations of the walls built by King Charles V in the 14th century,
