Palace of Versailles Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/palace-of-versailles Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:34:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Paris Map and Travel Guide http://toursmaps.com/paris-map-and-travel-guide-3.html http://toursmaps.com/paris-map-and-travel-guide-3.html#respond Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:09:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=268478 Paris Map and Travel Guide Paris – Versailles and Giverny Day Trip This post I’m leaving Paris and I’m heading a little bit outside to go to the town of Giverny where Monet is from and also see the Palace of Versailles which is one of the most extravagant palaces in the world. This place used to be only used for royal summer retreats and hunting grounds until Louis XIV came along and transformed it into a palace. The palace has over a hundred rooms. My favorite room of all is the Hall of Mirrors. It’s this long domed hallway

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/paris-map-and-travel-guide-3.html/feed 0 What To Do In Paris France http://toursmaps.com/what-to-do-in-paris-france.html http://toursmaps.com/what-to-do-in-paris-france.html#respond Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=260892 Versailles: town Designers propose; common humanity disposes, thank God. Versailles town is the real proof of the success of the French Revolution, and a key to the astonishing resilience of Parisians. Louis-le-Grand in his witless way carved up the town in front of the chateau with three huge avenues. Also, vain as well as witless, he discouraged conspicuous decoration in his courtiers’ buildings in case it invited comparison. Hence an austere town grew up; on a formal plan, with a few formal gestures interrupted by boulevards as brutally as Haussmann’s Paris. And it has turned out to be a wonderful

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