The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles in the department Yvelines in Ile-de-France.
From Paris you can take the train line U from Saint Lazare of La Défense to Versailles Rive Droite.
Train C from Austerlitz is also an option.
The castle is built in the 16th century, around 1660.
The château is made up of a complex of courtyards and buildings that have been preserved in architectural harmony. It covers an area of 63,154 m2, divided into 2,300 rooms, 1,000 of which are allocated to the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon2.
Napoleon used Versailles as a summer residence from 1810 to 1814.
The grounds of the Château de Versailles cover 815 hectares.
It comprises a number of features, including the Petit and Grand Trianon (home to Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis-Philippe I and Napoleon III), the Queen’s hamlet, the Grand and Petit Canal, a menagerie (now destroyed), an orangery and the pièce d’eau des Suisses
