Day Trip: Château de Versailles / 凡尔赛宫一日游

Website: www.chateauversailles.fr

Address: place d’Armes

Ticket Price: adult/child passport ticket including estate-wide access €20/free

Operation Hours: 9am-6.30pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to 5.30pm Tue-Sun Nov-Mar
Metro/RER: Versailles-Château–Rive Gauche

Amid magnificently landscaped formal gardens, this splendid and enormous palace was built in the mid-17th century during the reign of Louis XIV – the Roi Soleil (Sun King) – to project the absolute power of the French monarchy, which was then at the height of its glory. The château has undergone relatively few alterations since its construction, though almost all the interior furnishings disappeared during the Revolution and many of the rooms were rebuilt by Louis-Philippe (1830–48).

Some 30,000 workers and soldiers toiled on the structure, the bills for which all but emptied the kingdom’s coffers.

Work began in 1661 under the guidance of architect Louis Le Vau (Jules Hardouin-Mansart took over from Le Vau in the mid-1670s); painter and interior designer Charles Le Brun; and landscape artist André Le Nôtre, whose workers flattened hills, drained marshes and relocated forests as they laid out the seemingly endless gardens (free except during musical events; hgardens 8am-8.30pm Apr-Oct, to 6pm Nov-Mar, park 7am-8.30pm Apr-Oct, 8am-6pm Nov-Mar), ponds and fountains.

Le Brun and his hundreds of artisans decorated every moulding, cornice, ceiling and door of the interior with the most luxurious and ostentatious of appointments: frescos, marble, gilt and woodcarvings, many with themes and symbols drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. The King’s Suite of the Grands Appartements du Roi et de la Reine (King’s and Queen’s State Apartments), for example, includes rooms dedicated to Hercules, Venus, Diana, Mars and Mercury. The opulence reaches its peak in the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), a 75m-long ballroom with 17 huge mirrors on one side and, on the other, an equal number of windows looking out over the gardens and the setting sun.

To access areas that are otherwise off limits and to learn more about Versailles’ history, prebook a 90-minute guided tour (Contact: 01 30 83 77 88; Website: www.chateauversailles.fr; Address: Château de Versailles; Ticket Price: tours €10, plus palace entry; Operating Hours: English-language tours 9.30am Tue-Sun) of the Private Apartments of Louis XV and Louis XVI and the Opera House or Royal Chapel. Tours also cover the most famous parts of the palace.

The château is situated in the leafy, bourgeois suburb of Versailles, 22km southwest of central Paris. Take the frequent RER C5 (return €7.10) from Paris’ Left Bank RER stations to Versailles-Château–Rive Gauche station.

网站：www.chateauversailles.fr

地址：Place d'Armes

门票价格：成人/儿童护照机票，包括全村门票二十欧元/免费

营业时间：周二至周五上午九点至下午六点三十分，至周五至周日下午五点三十分

地铁 / RER：Versailles-Château-Rive Gauche

这座华丽而宏伟的宫殿建于十七世纪中叶路易十四统治期间 - 太阳之王（Roi Soleil）（太阳之王） - 在这座华丽的正式花园中建造，展现了法国君主制的绝对力量，当时正处于高度它的荣耀。自建造以来，城堡经历了相对较少的改建，尽管革命期间几乎所有的室内陈设都消失了，许多房间都由路易 - 菲利普（1830-1848）重建。

大约有3万名工人和士兵在这个结构上辛苦劳作，这些账单几乎清空了王国的金库。

1661年，在建筑师Louis Le Vau的指导下开始工作（Jules Hardouin-Mansart于1670年代中期从Le Vau手中接管）;画家和室内设计师Charles Le Brun;和景观艺术家AndréLeNôtre，他们的工作人员将山丘夷为平地，在他们铺设看似无尽的花园时放松了沼泽和重新安置的森林（除了音乐活动期间免费; 四月至十月8日上午八点至八点半，十一月至三月六点，公园上午七点 - 四月至十月8:30，十一月三日上午八点至六点，池塘和喷泉。

Le Brun和他的数百名工匠用最豪华和炫耀的约会装饰了内部的每一个造型，檐口，天花板和门：壁画，大理石，镀金和木雕，许多都是希腊和罗马神话中的主题和符号。例如，King's Suite of the Grands Appartements du Roi et de la Reine（国王和皇后国家公寓）包括致力于赫拉克勒斯，维纳斯，戴安娜，火星和水星的房间。 Galerie des Glaces（镜厅）的富裕程度达到了顶峰，一个75米长的宴会厅，一侧有17个巨大的镜子，另一侧有相同数量的窗户，可以俯瞰花园和夕阳。

要访问不受限制的地区并了解凡尔赛历史的更多信息，请预约九十分钟的导游（联系方式：01 30 83 77 88; 网站：www.chateauversailles.fr;地址：凡尔赛宫;门票价格：旅行十欧元，加上宫殿入口;营业时间：路易十五和路易十六的私人公寓以及歌剧院或皇家礼拜堂的英语旅行。周二至周日上午9:30。旅游还包括宫殿最着名的部分。

城堡位于巴黎市中心西南二十二公里处的凡尔赛宫的绿树成荫的资产阶级郊区。从巴黎的左岸RER车站到Versailles-Château-Rive Gauche车站，经常乘坐RER C5（返程7.10欧元）。