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VERSAILLES
Half day (4 hours) or Full day (8 hours) excursion.
Commissioned by the Sun King, Louis XIV, from Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, the leading architects and decorators of the time, the Château de Versailles symbolises French monarchy at its most splendid. Under Louis XIV, the court relocated to Versailles from Paris for much of the year—the courtiers numbered about 1,000, excluding their servants. The entrance, through the place d'Armes into a vast courtyard with classical façades and an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, leads to the extravagant State Apartments, the glittering Hall of Mirrors, then to the King's Apartments, where the monarch would rise and retire in the presence of his courtiers, and where he died in 1715. The extensive formal gardens and elaborate fountains were designed by Le Nôtre. |
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| Examples: |
| Half or full day tours (from 3 hours to 8 hours): |
| Paris |
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| Versailles |
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| Fontainebleau |
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| Giverny |
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| Chartres |
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| Disneyland® & Asterix |
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| Vaux le Vicomte |
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| Full day excursions (from 8 hours to 13 hours): |
| Normandy |
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| Loire Valley |
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| Champagne |
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| Burgundy |
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| Mont Saint Michel |
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| And More |
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| Combined Tours |
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