Route Knugget: Mona Lisa, Victor Horta and the number of the devil

28 February 2008, 00:00

Author: RouteYou

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Source picture: Pascal Brackman
As Dilbert says: "Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue".

You can find this statue near the Louvre in Paris, previously a royal palace, holding several of the world's most beautiful works of art, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

When Victor Horta, the famous Belgian Art Nouveau architect, heard about a robbery of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, he changed the design of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium.

The museum got even more into the spotlight when Dan Brown was pointing to the mysterious pyramid at the Louvre in the "Da Vinci Code". He indicated that the pyramid had mystriously exaclty 666 windows, the number of the devil. Just a coincidence? Not really, because there are 673 windows. But that numer is less exciting.

Check out this route in the great city of Paris

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