Things to Do in Versailles

The Palace of Versailles has 700+ rooms, 67 staircases, and 6,000+ windows, making it one of the largest palaces in the world.

The iconic Hall of Mirrors contains 357 mirrors and was the site where the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I in 1919.

Louis XIV's famous gardens cover 250,000 square metres and feature over 200,000 trees originally planted in geometric precision—a revolutionary landscape design for the 17th century.

Versailles sits 17 kilometres southwest of Paris and was once a small hunting lodge before Louis XIV transformed it into the seat of French royal power in 1682.

The Trianon palaces (Grand and Petit) within the estate were private retreats where Marie Antoinette famously created her rustic Hamlet village as an escape from court formality.

Water was so vital to Versailles' fountains and gardens that engineers built the Machine de Marly, a 17th-century hydraulic system to pump water from the Seine—the first of its kind.