Palace And Park Of Versailles Wikimedia Commons

See also: Category:Exterior of the Palace of Versailles See also: Category:Cour d'honneur of Versailles See also: Inner cour d'honneur of Versailles See also: Category:Garden facade of the Palace of Versailles See also: Category:Interior of the Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY;[1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi)...

The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National... Louis XIII built a hunting lodge at Versailles in 1623. His successor, Louis XIV, expanded the château into a palace that went through several expansions in phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favourite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the de facto capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who primarily made interior alterations to the palace, but in 1789 the royal family and French court returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned and emptied of its contents, and the population of the surrounding city plummeted.

Napoleon, following his coronation as Emperor, used the subsidiary palace, Grand Trianon, as a summer residence from 1810 to 1814, but did not use the main palace. Following the Bourbon Restoration, when the king was returned to the throne, he resided in Paris and it was not until the 1830s that meaningful repairs were made to the palace. A museum of French history was installed within it, replacing the courtiers apartments of the southern wing. The palace and park were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for its importance as the centre of power, art, and science in France during the 17th and 18th centuries.[4] The... Lights, perspectives, details, reflections, discover the Palace of Versailles in pictures. Browse through a selection of 100 photos, every corner of the gardens of Versailles and Trianon, the colors of the four seasons, the intimacy of the groves, water games fountains and the rural atmosphere...

This building is classé au titre des monuments historiques de la France. It is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00087673 . العربية | asturianu | беларуская | беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | বাংলা | català | čeština | dansk | Deutsch | English | español | euskara | فارسی | français | avañe'ẽ | עברית | हिन्दी... This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. This category contains only the following page. The following 56 files are in this category, out of 56 total.

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Vanderlyn" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Vanderlyn">John Vanderlyn</a> </bdi> date: between 1818 and 1819 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1818-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1818-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div> dimensions: size cm height=360 width=4950 current location: The American Wing 2 Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art source: From Google Cultural Institute|dQGppPNGHR4fsw Deutsch | English | español | français | ქართული | македонски | +/−

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