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 Château - Panels "Billets" and
"A" with tickets by breughel, 1 more photos
There is no gate C anymore for the Paris Museum Pass in contradiction with what your will read on the Paris museum pass and previous info from Versailles website. On the extreme right is the entrance for groups.
As more and more visitors buy their ticket in advance you find already a line at 9 hour at the opening at the gate . Here visitors pass in a prefab "pavilion" with 3 detector frames (photo 2). They check your bag.
From here you can go where you want, usually the circuit of the "Château de Versailles" with the highlights "Galerie des Glaces" and "Chambre du Roi".
The crowds at the Château de Versailles attain a maximum in summer season, by nice weather as it is no fun to visit the kilometres of gardens in the rain, and on Tuesday when the Louvre is closed.
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ENTRER AU CHATEAU.
Il y a des modifications qui ne sont pas mentionnées sur le site web du Château de Versailles.
En passant la grille extérieure vous verrez à votre gauche le panneau rouge "Billets - Tickets" qui dirige vers la file pour acheter le billet d'entrée.
Juste à droite se trouve un panneau rouge "Individuels avec billets, sur réservation, visiteurs munis de pass".
Il n'y a plus d'entrée spéciale pour les visiteurs munis du Paris Museum Pass bien que cela figure encore sur les informations web et les imprimés.
Comme de plus en plus de visiteurs achètent leur billet à l'avance il y a des files à l'entrée < A > dès l'ouverture à 9 h.
Par cette file < A > les visiteurs passent dans le pavillon de sécurité où se trouvent 3 portiques de détection. Le contenu des sacs est vérifié à la main. Passé la sécurité le visiteur peut se diriger ver les circuits habituels très encombrés les jours d'affluence ou le parc.
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 Versailles on a weekday by bpacker
Ticket Prices after 330pm
€7.50-> €5.50 ( Grand Palace)
€5-> €3 (Trianon Palaces) Leave a Comment
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 The little tourist office by bpacker
-> entry to multiple palace areas and all the Trianon Gardens
->priority access ( no **** queues! )
-> Usage of an audio guide.
Just the thing for a restless person like me. I grab it of course and later recalled frustrated sods queuing up for the same thing at the Palace itself.
Of course, you don't need the passport if you have the musuem pass. The pass covers both the Trianon palaces and the Chateau. Leave a Comment
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 The Royal Courtyard by Goner
During the French Revolution, most of the furnishings were torn down and scattered around the world, but much has been returned to Versailles to rivel any palace in the world.A map is your best friend, instead of wandering aimlessly as I did, have a plan, that way you will make note of the important objects in each room.
Versailles! It is wonderfully beautiful! You gaze, and stare, and try to understand that it is real, that it is on the earth, that it is not the Garden of Eden—but your brain grows giddy, stupefied by the world of beauty around you, and you half believe you are the dupe of an exquisite dream.
—Samuel Langhorne Clemens, The Innocents Abroad, 1869 Leave a Comment
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 Hall of Mirrors by Goner
The Hall of Mirrors was used as a passage way, each day the courtiers would wait here for the King and the royal famly in procession on the way to mass. It was also the setting for ambassadors and for state audiences. This hall is most noteable for hosting the proclamation of the German Empire on Januray 18th, 1871 and the signing of the Treaty of Versaille on June 28th 1919, which put an end to WWI. Leave a Comment
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 Bas-Relief by Goner
The decor of the walls is entirely of beautiful marble. The bas-relief in the picture is by Coysevox representing Louis XIV crossing a battlefield on horseback. The famous works suspended above are two figures of Fame. Below are two chained captives. Leave a Comment
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 Fountain of Enceladus by GonerLeave a Comment
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 Fountain of Apollo by Goner
One of the most amazing things about Versailles are the fountains. The King had to go to great lenghts to pump water from the Seine and Eure out to Versailles. The Marly waterworks carried water from the Seine to Versailles via the Louveciennes aqueduct. The engineers had people running around ahead of the King turning valves to insure that wherever the King was, the fountains would be working. Originally there were 1,400 original fountains but only 607 are still working.
*I looked up the meaning of quadrilobate and it means four lobes?? Don't know how it applies to this fountain though. Leave a Comment
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 Louis XIV by Goner
The latest schedule for Versailles:
Chateau Opens at: 9:00 AM
Closes at: 6:30 PM
Park Opens at: 7:00 AM
Closes at: 9:00 PM
for more info on times for visiting other areas can be found on the Website listed below.
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/fr/en/ Leave a Comment
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 Parterre of Latona by GonerLeave a Comment
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