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VERSAILLES
PALACE
Half an hour from
Paris
, the city of
Versailles
lies, famous from the one of the most
beautiful and important palaces of the world,
Versailles
Palace
, symbol of the French monarchs
absolute power. Thanks to the Luis
XIV, the main creator of it,
Versailles
is exactly what we can see: a place dedicated to enjoy
the life and art, where fun and love can be found in every
corner…
In addition,
Versailles
is an historical place. It was there
where the French Revolution began and finished. Hundred and twenty
years later, it would be the place where The Treaty of Versailles
was signed supposing the end of the I World War.
The
Versailles
Palace
Around 1623, the monarch Luis
XIII commanded to construct a pavilion of hunting located
in a boundary, in which the monarch and the noble spent their
short moments of leisure. The place pleased so much to the king,
that he commanded to build en extension, creating what is known
today like "the old
palace".
Later, his son, Luis XIV, obsessed
with creating a palace and surroundings without that couldn’t
be compared with anything else in the known world, ordered to his
architect Luis le van make more beautiful and bigger the
previous building That’s where the Gallery of the Mirrors was constructed, without a doubt the
most impressive room of the
Palace of Versailles, that served among the other occasions
- as room where the Treaty
of Versailles was signed.
The Palace interior’s hides such treasures as the
Halls of Peace and The
War and The rooms of The King and
The Queen, in addition to The
Queen’s private Apartments, where nothing has been
changed since Marie
Antoinette has left
Versailles
in 1789. The
Chapel is another important place, where Luis XIV, Luis XV and
Luis XVI went daily
to mass. Palace interiors surprise us with the
private Opera, a space where the monarchs enjoyed concerts
and entertainment.
The
gardens
If the visit of the interiors of the palace is spectacular enough,
the visit of the gardens
will not leave you disappointed. It’s the place where you
can get lost for hours without getting tired, contemplating the
magnificent gardens with perfect symmetries and designs, or the
great amount of pools and
water sources that supplies Versailles
the ingenious of the engineers gives an idea of the great work and
of the time that had to be spend to gather and manage such amount
of water and to build and maintain all that spectacular complex
here.
Excursions
to
Versailles
Versailles
+ Giverny
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