Versailles, royal city

You dream of Versailles, imagine it, and yet when you arrive the thrill is still very real. The beautiful avenues lead you straight to the Palace, where the charm of the place takes over. The Place d’Armes is laid out before you, the gates of the golden Grille Royale appear and then the Palace itself in all its majesty.

Versailles was simply a modest village when Louis XIII discovered it. Louis XIV was to make of it a palace in his own image, shining and radiant. He surrounded himself with the greatest designers such as Le Vau, Le Nôtre and Le Brun who created feats of harmony. Louis XV and Louis XVI continued to embellish this mythical site in which elegance, glory and entertainment form a magnificent synthesis. Today’s visitors can tour the royal apartments, the famous Hall of Mirrors, excellent exhibitions, the gardens and the 800 hectares of grounds in which nestles the Trianon estate.

Versailles is also a dynamic city made up of quarters all different from one another: the Saint Louis quarter with its cathedral, Notre-Dame with its church and market, Montreuil and its village ambience...

Other sights: tours and events of Versailles Spectacles, including the evening fountains spectacle, the Académie du Spectacle Equestre, the Royal Kitchen Garden, the Musée Lambinet, the Estate of Madame Elisabeth, the Théâtre Montansier and the Osmothèque.

“The Royal Opera House was designed only for extraordinary events such as the royal banquets, operas and masked balls which would normally accompany royal family marriages. It was therefore used only around twenty times in twenty years.”  L. Brunner, director of Château Versailles Spectacles, talking to Stéphanie Labadie for France Bleu 107.1. The opera house was opened during the reign of Louis XV for the marriage of the Dauphin and the archduchess Marie-Antoinette, in 1770.

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