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The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence located in Versailles, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and has since 1995 been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. 15,000,000 people visit the Palace, Park, or Gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. However, due to the COVID-19 virus, the number of paying visitors to the Chateau dropped by 75 percent from eight million in 2019 to two million in 2020. The drop was particularly sharp among foreign visitors, who account for eighty percent of paying visitors.
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Built in 1860-1863, this Greek Revival-style building was designed by Thomas Pattison and James L. Yater to serve as the Ripley County Courthouse, and sits on a square in the middle of downtown Versailles, Indiana. The building features a gabled roof, a brick exterior, six-over-six and nine-over-nine double-hung windows, brick cornices, stone lintels, a rough-hewn stone base, oxeye attic windows on the gable ends, and a two-tier rectilinear tower with engaged columns, a hipped roof with a finial, clock faces. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
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Versailles, France
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Our hotel in Versailles (The lovely : Hôtel la Résidence du Berry) was right around the corner from the beautiful Versailles Cathedral.
The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. It is now open as a museum and is a very popular tourist attraction.
When the château was built, the community of Versailles was a small village dating from the 11th century. Today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the centre of the French capital.
Versailles was the seat of political power in the Kingdom of France from 1682, when King Louis XIV moved the royal court from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789, within three months after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles
Versailles State Park in Indiana features this dam that allows excess water to flow over the top and into the stream below. This freeze action shot reveals the wonderful patterns of the water as small sheets of water slowly descend the dam wall.
if you can be there in the early morning and/or in the late evening, Versailles can be a wonderful place of tranquillity
The gardens and fountains Versailles, King Louis XIV's palace, are magical. The Chateau de Versailles website describes the garden view as follows:
"From the central window of the Hall of mirrors the visitor look down on the grand perspective that leads the gaze from the Water Parterre to the horizon. This original perspective, which preceded the reign of Louis XIV, was developed and prolonged by the gardener André Le Nôtre by widening the Royal Path and digging the Grand Canal. This vast perspective stretches from the façade of the Château de Versailles to the railings of the park."