Cover: The Peace vase and the Palace’s restored west frontage © Palace of Versailles, Christian Milet Établissement public Disabled access Access Coming soon: Greater Versailles... To improve visitor reception facilities and Vehicles may drop disabled du musée et du domaine SNCF trains ensure heritage conservation, the Établis- national de Versailles visitors off near Entrance H, sement Public de Versailles has begun a Versailles-Chantiers station major restoration campaign for the RP 834 at the Gabriel Pavilion and (from Paris Montparnasse) Palace and Gardens. We ask visitors to 78008 Versailles Cedex at the reception pavilion please excuse any inconveniences this Versailles-Rive Droite station (wooden building), in the work may cause. This estate and (from Paris Saint-Lazare) surrounding park Main Courtyard of the Palace. To help safeguard our heritage, we Save time: ask visitors to put their litter in the bins and gardens RER trains provided and not to touch any vases or have been awarded Print off your ticket Fully accessible:King’s and World Heritage status. Versailles-Rive Gauche station statues, walk on the lawns or picnic. at home! Queen’s State Apartments Animals must be kept on leads and are Such status enshrines (Line C from Paris) prohibited in Marie-Antoinette’s Estate. the exceptional Book your visit at (Entrance H of the Palace), universal cultural www.chateauversailles.fr Grand Trianon. Bus 171 Cameras installed in the Palace and in value of the site, Versailles Place d’Armes bus the gardens send real-time images to the so that it may be Partially accessible: EPV’s website so you can “visit” Versailles protected for the stop (from Pont de Sèvres) online. benefit of mankind. Informations and reservations Park,gardens and 9 CCTV monitoring is also in operation 0 01 30 83 78 00 Marie-Antoinette’s Estate. o throughout the site. g Car and coach parks a m y Information: 01 30 83 78 00 l Friends of Versailles Society o Place d’Armes, Allée de Bailly P [email protected] : n o telephone: 01 30 83 75 48 i (Park), Grand Trianon, Petit t p e c fax: 01 30 83 75 19 Access to the Park through Trianon and Queen’s Hamlet. n o the Queen’s Gate (Boulevard C Shows 01 30 83 78 89 de la Reine) is free for vehicles transporting disabled visitors (on production ofproof). Guide 2009-2010 The restored Marble Courtyard © Palace of Versailles, Christian Milet Orangery Lift for people with limited mobility Exit Royal Courtyard Access to the Gardens i Tickets Access ramp for people with limited mobility Tickets i Tickets and information Audioguide Free toilets for individual visitors 4 possibilities available: Entrance Palace Princes Courtyard Individuals with tickets ticket machines Palace (disabled access), Palace or Passes With audioguide in 8 languages School group cloakroom Entrance A, Grand Trianon, Access to all visit circuits Little Venice, Flottille, Dauphin’s This ticket allows you to visit* Bookshops (entrance A) : Groups with reservations Grove and Girandole Grove for non-guided visits Souvenirs State Apartments (disabled access). Disabled access Picnic area Hall of Mirrors, King’s Chamber... Please help us to protect this prestigious to all visit circuits Chapel and 17th-century Restaurants heritage you should refrain from touching the doors, gilded wall-panelling, curtains and galleries Equiped for «Grand Café d’Orléans» disabled visitors 01 39 50 29 79 furniture. Dauphin’s Apartments, «La Flottille» 01 39 51 41 58 Checkroom the heir to the throne Parking spaces reserved for People with limited mobility «Petite Venise» 01 39 53 25 69 The following items must obligatorily be left in the checkroom: walking sticks, umbrellas, Mesdames’ Apartments, not accompanied by a carer Mini-train pointed, sharp and blunt implements, suit- Louis XV’s daughters Checkroom Telephone: 01 39 54 22 00 cases, briefcases, rucksacks, shopping bags at week-ends only, in high season and other items of luggage, pushchairs, * except for temporary closures Telephone Fax: 01 39 55 07 25 prams, scooters, helmets, camera tripods, Electric cars reproductions, casts. Pass Baby-changing tables Information: 01 39 66 97 66 with audioguide in 8 languages Bicycles not allowed In everyone’s interest, appropriate dress is obligatory. Guided tours Dogs must be kept on leads with a national museum lecturer The use of flash bulbs and mobile tele- phones is not allowed inside the buildings. Marie-Antoinette’s Estate You are about to visit the Palace and The royal family and the court were forced Gardens of Versailles which count among to leave Versailles on October 6th 1789, after the most prestigious monuments of the the first days of the French Revolution. world’s artistic heritage and are certainly the In 1837, King Louis-Philippe inaugurated finest and most complete achievement of the Museum in the Palace, devoted to glori- 17th century French art. ous events in the history of France. King Louis XIII’s former hunting lodge was The various tickets on sale allow you to plan your day so as Hall of Mirrors © RMN, Thierry Ollivier transformed and enlarged by his son Louis to discover all the splendours of Versailles. Starting from the XIV, who installed his court and govern- Royal Courtyard, explore all of the Palace’s visit circuits freely then cross the Gardens and Groves to the Grand The Palace is open every day ment here. Trianon and Marie-Antoinette’s Estate. except Mondays, on certain French The Palace was embellished with new public holidays, or when official apartments in the 18th century, during the ceremonies are held. reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. high season 9am to 6.30pm last admission: 6pm low season 9am to 5.30pm last admission: 5pm 1 l The Palace of Versailles 2 l Trianon Palaces and Marie-Antoinette’s Estate Restoring Marie-Antoinette’s Estate is part Now you can rediscover the Petit Trianon Trianon Palaces and Marie- of the Greater Versailles project to restore estate restored to its unity as a reserved, pro- Antoinette’s Estate are open every Versailles’s historic contrasts between tected place expressing Marie-Antoinette’s day, except Mondays and some baroque and classical, austerity and extrav- eclecticism and refinement plus an art of liv- French public holidays and during official ceremonies. agance, masculine inspiration (Louis XIV) ing linked with freedom of thought inspired and feminine inspiration (Marie-Antoinette by Enlightenment theories. high season, 12noon to 6.30pm tickets sold until 5.50pm following Madame de Pompadour). last admissions to the Grand Trianon The Petit Trianon and its park are insepa- and Petit Trianon: 6pm rably linked with the memory of Marie- (the gardens must be vacated Antoinette, the only queen to impose her from 7pmand are closed at 7.30pm) Access: Petit Trianon, Chapel, French own personal tastes at Versailles, scorning Pavilion, Queen’s Theatre, Belvedere, the old court and its traditions. In the Temple of Love, Grotto, Landscaped Trianon estate that Louis XVI gave her in Garden, Refreshments Dairy, Queen’s 1774, she found a private haven where she Montres Breguet SA, Major Patron of the Ministry for Culture and Hamlet and Farm, Grand Trianon. Communication, has made it possible to undertake an important could disregard court Etiquette. programme of restoration on the Petit Trianon and French Pavilion. low season, 12noon to 5.30pm tickets sold until 4.50pm last admissions: 5pm Access: Petit Trianon, gardens and Grand Trianon. Created by the architect J. Hardouin- After the Revolution and the advent of the Mansart in 1687, at the request of Louis First Empire, it became one of Napoleon’s XIV, the Grand Trianon “in marble and favourite residences, and it was also restored porphyry, with its delightful gardens” was a during the 1960s for General De Gaulle. place of relaxation for the king and the royal family, anxious to escape from the stiff eti- quette of the court of Versailles. The Grand Trianon © Jean-Baptiste Leroux 3 l Pass Palace ticket Palace-exhibition ticket with audioguide in 10 languages with audioguide in 10 languages 18 years and older: Û15 sold on-site until 3pm age 18 and over*: Û13.50 reduced rate: Û11.50 high season reduced rate: Û10 age 18 and over: school students, Imagine R cardholders, Audioguide supplement Û20 on weekdays disabled, under 18s*: free For visitors with free admission who wish to Û25 Thuesday from 12 May to 29 September; *From 1 April 2009 have an audioguide or access to the Grand at weekends and on public holidays, including European Union citizens under age 26: Musical Fountain Display there is an audioguide access to the Grandes Eaux Musicales free access to permanent collections. supplement to pay: low season weekdays: Û6 (Û7 during exhibitions); age 18 and over: Û16 Access all year round, excepting temporary clo- Thuesday from 12 May to 29 June, sures, Access all year round, excepting temporary closu- to the King’s and Queen’s State Apartments, high-season weekends and public holidays: res, to the King’s and Queen’s State Apartments, the Chapel and 17th-century galleries, the History Û10 (Û11 during exhibitions) including access the Chapel and 17th-century galleries, the History of France galleries, the Dauphin’s Apartments; to the Grand Musical Fountain Display. (at weekends only, of France Galleries, the Dauphin’s Apartments, the Mesdames’ Apartments in high season) the Petit Trianon and the Grand Trianon; in high . season, the Mesdames’Apartments (at weekends only), Marie-Antoinette’s Estate, the Grandes Eaux Musicales. Trianon Palaces and high season, Petit Trianon, Grand Trianon, Marie-Antoinette’s Estate ticket Chapel, Queen’s Hamlet, Queen’s Theatre, (liable to change) Belvedere, Temple of Love, Grotto, Landscaped high season Garden, Refreshments Dairy, French Pavilion, age 18 and over*: Û10 (Û6 from 4pm) Farm; low season, Petit Trianon, Grand Trianon school students, Imagine R cardholders, and access to the Petit Trianon gardens.