Sunday, November 11, 2012

The Palace of Versailles

Our GPS tried tried to take us somewhere else but when we saw the Palace, we knew we had arrived at the right place.
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 It must be a common theme with palaces because we noticed with Buckingham Palace also, when something is gold, it is really gold.


This was the quad outside the palace gates.



The front doors of the palace inside the gate.














The inside was just as glorious.
 

Huge paintings adorned every inch of the walls.

Statue of Louis the 14th.
  My favorite room (and everyone else's) - the Hall of  Mirrors.

The back of the Palace as seen from the gardens.

This is just a small section of the gardens. It extends past the water at the end and is just as wide as it is long.
 What else can I say....just a breathtaking place to see.


An overview of the Palace and the gardens

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