A visit to the Palace of Versailles (Palace of Versailles) Bashny.Net

According to legend, when King Louis XIV was five years old, he was strolling through the picturesque garden of the Tuileries, he looked into a puddle. It reflects the sun.

I - the sun! I - the sun! - Boy shouted happily. Since then he was called - "Sun King." Even in his youth monarch dreamed of something big, immaculate, so that would have struck all of Europe - the best of the Louvre, Vincennes and Fontainebleau together.

Cut a length of half his life - 50 years - Louis XIV needed to implement this ambitious plan. Subsequently, his successor added this place Small Trianon, and was executed on the guillotine Louis XVI - the park and the village with the dairy farm.

The place to build a new palace young king chose a small village south-west of Paris, where his father, Louis XIII, built a modest but cozy, hunting pavilion. Subsequently, in this place, in the forest, increased the castle - made of stone, brick and slate.

"Sun King" turned it into the largest palace in Europe, where they could both stay in, not much is not enough - 20 thousand people! Ten years later, in a provincial park of Versailles appeared luxurious, unique fountains sounded flirtatious "twitter" ladies. Interior finishing charged Charlevoix painter Le Brun, and the design of gardens - André Le Nôtre.

The entire facade of the Palace of Versailles from the Garden occupies a magnificent Hall of Mirrors or Gallery of Louis XIV. In the northern wing of the palace of the king placed large apartment divided into seven salons. In the south - the rest of the first ladies. The main entrance - through the gates of iron decorated with gold lattice, which is crowned with the royal coat of arms and crown.