Palace of Versailles

Yes Yes Yes. Versailles is worth a visit with its Magnifique Golden Gate. The 87-yard-long steel gate is decorated with 100,000 gold leaves, gold leaves have been crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. The Palace of not to be missed. Seeing the spectacular Hall of Mirrors alone is worth the visit. (French: Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces) is the central gallery of the Palace. Which makes Versailles the epitome of opulence You can well and truly see Versailles was built to impress.

The Palace of Versailles was declared the official royal residence in 1682 and the official residence of the court of France on May 6, 1682. King Louis Philippe, in the museum he created, showcased different aspects of French history. The Battles Gallery can still be seen today with its modern-day keepers noting that the gallery’s art depicts every main French battle. It represents an age in French history of both France’s rise as a fashion and power center as well as the dramatic.

Today, the Palace of Versailles is used as a museum, where millions of people from all over the world come to see the grandeur and opulence that King Louis legacy. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Versailles curators would convert many of the museum areas back into palace space, trying to show how they looked before the French Revolution.

The symbolism of the Sun King is very visible in the architecture of the Versailles. The painter Lebrun, who designed the iconographic program of the Palace, focused paintings, sculptures and the architecture to one goal only — celebrating the King.