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Between train station and park: the village.
kokoryko Says: The old village is interesting to look at, but if you walk up from the train station, you will pass through the more modern village, typical suburban village of Ile de France, of the twenties-fifties. Small dead end streets, small houses in different styles (picture 1) are...
kokoryko Says: If Marly le Roi is now a big suburban area, it kept its centre rather well preserved and you can visit there a nice coloured little village where the main street is really charming and where a walk between shops, cafés and coloured houses is enjoyable, relaxing and offering...
kokoryko Says: In the park, above Château de Monte Cristo, is the kitsch gothic “Chateau d’If” (picture 1), named like the prison from where Edmond Dantes (The count of Monte Cristo) escaped, and where Dantes, during his long detention prepared his revenge; Dumas used this pavilion to...
kokoryko Says: Alexandre Dumas who had lots of success (and money) with his “Three Musketeers” and the “Count of Monte Cristo”, decided to find a place where he could, in all quietude, write many more of his novels. He made the choice of a land in Marly, above the Seine, in a wooden park...
kokoryko Says: The drinking trough of Marly was a drinking trough for horses, other animals and people, but was also an intermediate basin of the Marly Machine to carry the water uphill; the water was carried in several legs to higher and higher basins till the top of the hill; from there,...
kokoryko Says: The park of Marly is just a festival of beautiful statues, and in a side alley you will be amazed by this Diane (picture 2), by Guillaume Coustou, alone, like in a green jewel case, formed by the trees. A beautiful group of four statues decorates the upper Basin of the Park;...
kokoryko Says: Incredible Coustou family!The Coustou were a sculptors family, with Guillaume, the father, Guillaume the son, and Nicolas, the uncle (and brother); the King Sun commissioned them all the works you can see in the Park of Marly, but they also were architects and landscapers,...
kokoryko Says: Many people know the horse of Marly, but less know who created them, and about their history.The horses of Marly are a group of four sculptures, featuring horses, of course which, when they were created by Guillaume Coustou the son, in 1745, as his father could not finish...
On the sides of the park, and more.
kokoryko Says: The huge park of Marly is also very interesting to look at from the sides, how to say? From the woods, from side alleys, and even the surroundings offer some interesting views.There are a few side alleys like this one (picture 1), behind a basin, or this one on the east...
kokoryko Says: Before discovering the wonderful sculptures, let us walk around the “Great Basin”, now not as filled as it was during Louis XIV time; the borders of the basin are covered with inviting lawn and surrounded by conical cypresses giving a certain charm to the place (picture 1,...
Discover perspectives in a "Jardin à la Française"
kokoryko Says: The Machine de Marly has disappeared; the castle of Louis XIV has disappeared after the Revolution, the pavilions have disappeared, the main lay out of the King Sun’s leisure garden has changed, but the general shape and the plan of the garden have been kept and I can...
It is a short wya to Marly. . .
kokoryko Says: The easiest way to get to Marly is to take the train at St Lazare station, departure about every half hours, trip lasts 30-35 mn. From the train station you unfortunately have to choose, either park in one direction, or Monte Cristo in the other direction.I would suggest,...
Plan a Marly-le-Roi vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Marly-le-Roi locals
The easiest way to get to Marly is to take the train at St Lazare station, departure about every half hours, trip lasts 30-35 mn. From the train station you...
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A big park and a small village next to Paris
Marly-The-King, the place the Sun King -Louis XIV-, really liked and created for himself ! Marly-le-Roi,, located 15 km west of Paris, on a wide promontory above the Seine river is the place Louis XIV...
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Sadly I did not manage to take any photographs during my day in Marly - no doubt due to me spending my whole day with my colleagues in an international meeting. It certainly seemed like a pleasant......
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