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December 13, 2011
Paris, France
On the right bank of the River Seine, Paris’s Louvre Museum was actually once a royal palace, and before that, a fortress meant to protect against marauding Vikings in the 12th century. It became a museum in 1793. Even if you aren’t a museum-goer, you owe it to yourself to see the world’s most famous work of art, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” housed here.
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