Versailles Palace COMPLETE walk through. What a great Palace!! – Paris France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s travel videos and I’m in Paris, France and I’m at Versailles. Are you ready to go see Versailles? Let’s go see the palace. It’s going to be amazing. Let’s do this. Incredible. So, let me get this camera turned around and uh look at that. Is that incredible? Wow. All right. Voila. Versailles. Shoot. Pretty amazing. I guess I should level my camera out a bit just to make sure I’m on track. Wow. Wow. It’s pretty amazing, huh? Marie Twinette. Little bad girl. All right. Well, here’s where you enter. And I’m sure there’s a line for tickets and no tickets and everything else. Look at the gold gate. That’s pretty amazing. Ah, very cool. Wow. Entrance. Entrance. There’s another sign over there. But uh this says entrance individual with tickets. Individual conit with tickets. So you got to have a ticket. And I guess that line is for tickets. I think the first opening is at 9. And I have a ticket for nine. You can see that building over there is pretty amazing. Wow. Napoleon lived here but not in the main palace in the secondary palace from um what was it 18 well let’s just say he lived here for four years that’s what I read I can’t remember the exact dates but uh wow wow imagine this square being filled with rioting um people from France demanding food. They didn’t have any food and then they pulled them out of here and beheaded her. Right. I don’t know all the ins and outs, but uh pretty crazy. Well, let me figure out if this is the right line because it looks like there’s this line and then it looks like there’s another line over there, but I don’t know for sure, but it certainly is uh amazing all the same. All right, I’ll be right back. All right, everybody. So, here’s the line to get in. And it’s kind of tricky. Like, this one says 9:30. This little yellow sign. That one says 10:30. 10’s behind me. I bought the tickets for 9. Um, and uh, the email said nine. However, the ticket said 10. So, pay attention to what you’re buying and what your ticket says because it’s really all about that ticket. If uh if you buy something um, like the email says 9, you get here at 9:00, it’s uh, it’s not okay. So, just pay attention to what you’re doing. Um, and the lines get pretty hairy. Oops. I should fix this camera so it’s a little bit easier to see. Very cool. Okay, everybody. Bye. Okay, everybody. This is the internal courtyard. So, I’m in Versailles. Pretty amazing. Wow. Wow. So, I’m going to head straight across, I guess. You know, it said the Hall of Mirrors, I think, is this way or something, but uh we’ll go find out what we get here. And what does this one say? Grand Apartments Gallery, Deasa, State Apartment, Hall of Mirrors, Grand Blah blah blah. Okay. Wow, look at the sculptures. Amazing. Really very amazing statues. Huh? Wow. Wow. Oh my. This is Oops. The Chapel for Royals, I guess. Hit pause if you want to read that if you can read that. I’m hoping it’s focused, but uh Pretty amazing. And the floor is amazing, too. I wonder why they blocked off the center section. It’s blocked off so you can’t get out into the middle area, but the ceiling is still just crazy. Wow. We’re going to wait for this. Sorry, bro. Incredible. It’s certainly crowded, huh? It’s interesting that the even the little hallway passageways are ornate, which is pretty cool, right? Everybody’s pictures. How you doing? Sorry about that. Outstanding. We’re here. We did it, right? We did it. Wow, it’s just so much to see. These little things are so incredible. And I love the columns on top and the square pillars on the bottom. And the crowd is just crazy. Okay, let me take some pictures and I’ll be right back. All right, everybody. Now down the corridor here. It looks like you have to go left. Salad. Oh my. How do you get in here? Sorry. They’re all filming the video. Excuse me. Sorry. Thank you. So, they have a video playing that shows the ground in the complex, but I they have a better video for that. Look online, s Eric Clark travel videos in Versailles and uh you’ll see it as soon as I get it done. [Music] And here’s the palace from above. It’s a little different now. Oh, that’s a long time ago, I think, and the grounds behind it and everything else. But more videos that looks a little more recent there. And that’s art. I don’t know if any of them are like named artists. They could be. I don’t know. See the Chicken. Sorry for Sorry. It’s interesting. So, they all have these little recorders and so they enter a room and then they walk as fast as the recorder talks. Um, and so they, you know, they see a statue and they listen and then they go to the next statue and they listen and they go to the next statue and listen and It’s pretty amazing. Could it be crowded? Let’s see if I can get out ahead of this a little bit. I don’t know that that’s even possible. But look at those. They almost look like wood, huh? I guess maybe they are wood. Huh. That’s amazing. You know, when it’s a full room, you know, there’s something to see. when nobody’s moving. All is good. Look at the furniture. I kind of like old furniture, too, cuz it made it through the years after being sat on 483 million times and it made it to today. This probably means the quality of workmanship is probably superb. And they probably use something other than nail and glues. Sorry, bro. No bad. Great table, too. Look at the table. That’s amazing. Little clawed feet. I like that picture, too. No videos. Up, up, and away, I guess. Wow. It’s like a slowmoving herd. But imagine Marian Twinette running through these halls. Another thing, look at the steps. You see how they’re curved? They’re worn out here. So, this is where somebody would hang on to the rail. But the cement itself, the marble itself, it dips from all the traffic. Think about how much traffic you’d have to have to wear it out. their furniture from way back when. A little armois. H I’m trying to walk through this a little fast just so that the video is not 800 hours long, but my thought is that I think the hall of mirrors is going to be a long one cuz it’s just amazing. The purple room. The blue room. Here’s a black room. There’s a green room. A red room. Wow. And the red room. Oh, there’s a yellow room. Oh, look at the little table. And the cute. And the desk. That’s cute, too. Sorry. It’s interesting how all the rooms are different colors. So, you see how this is the yellow room, right? And then what’s the next one? The green room. And the blue room and the brown room. Neat chair. Imagine living here. Imagine this is your house and you got to run through this area. All right, now we’re getting into my stuff. Wow. Oh, this is the cathedral, the church. I was in this earlier at the beginning of the video. Sorry about that. I had to recenter my camera. Wow, look at this one. Yeah. Wow. Derry. Well, I must be getting the good stuff cuz there’s a congestion area here. Wow. Okay. Well, something is uh stopping everybody right here. Bless you. Wow. Amazing rooms, huh? Imagine this being your bedroom. Wow. Wow. And the dog is again sorry. She was She did great. She like and uh she saved and glitter’s a tough one. I guess glare is always a tough one though, huh? [Music] All right, let’s not stop here, everybody. Oh, this is the bedroom. I gotcha. I guess I understand. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get up close enough to All right, I’m going to have to push. So, the little bed over there, maybe a clock and stuff. Now things are certainly bunching up, aren’t they? as a trans. This wasn’t a real to. I’ll tell you later. This wasn’t a real kept almost all the time here. really give a lot of Let me get past these people here. Just get out of my way. Pretty amazing wall. Ceiling’s not too bad either. This is the hollow mirrors here. So, I’m going to keep it aimed up there and I’m going to walk all the way down so you get to see the ceiling and then you can I’ll come back. I’m going to Mr. Pretty [Music] amazing, huh? And this is just the ceiling. I’ll turn around and come back in a second. I got to get to the end. All right. And that’s the end. And there’s tons of statues and stuff, too. Let’s go to this side. Sorry, a little glamour shot there. All right, so now let’s go back this way and I’ll go down this side cuz there’s less traffic on this side. And again, there’s statues and marble and sculptures and candle holders and and I think this was famous because of all the candles. It was like I don’t even remember like 11,000 candles that had to be lit every night before they had electricity. Thank you. You’re welcome. I had to get in their picture. Excuse me. Jesus. Wow. It’s pretty amazing, everybody. You know, it’s funny cuz I think Paris was in like the first five or six places I ever came to and and I always thought this room was like beyond amazing. Um, and now that I’ve been to 100 countries and seen 100,000 palaces and everything else, it uh it still is amazing. But there’s so much more that is uh incredible, you know. Um, just just amazing, you know. Yeah. Still amazing. All right, I guess I’ll just take you down it again. I was going to stop, but I don’t know. It’s a different perspective, isn’t it? All the arched windows and everything else. And the view goes out to the garden. And the garden is amazing out there. I don’t know if I can get it to focus for you. I don’t think it’s going to show up for us. All right, I’ll push through. For a big man, I do pretty good at pushing through. Another bed. And I’m sure I can point out the if I can get you the Man, I I It’s so far away you can’t tell if you I can’t even read it from the rope. I got to lean in big time. See how this room is fairly empty of people. A tapestry Imagine making that. It probably take you hundred years. Excuse me. Wow, pretty ornate. I like getting right underneath the chandeliers. the 14th. What is What is down? Down is what? Down is boutique apartments. And then there’s that way which is sort exit. But what’s the other way? What’s I don’t know. Wow. That’s a pretty heck of a room. Wow. Wow. Look at the size of these paintings. That takes up that whole wall. And there’s another one on all sides except by the windows. It’s hard not to get the glare, everybody. I’m really sorry. I guess if I stood on the other side, maybe it would work a little better. Coronation maybe. But this one says sorty. What was the other way? I’m going to have to go back everybody. I hate to do this to you, but I don’t know what was there. And it looks like a lot of people are going back or a lot a couple. Yeah. Let me ask this lady. What What’s downstairs? Uh shops. Shops. Yeah. A visit an exhibition. So, but nothing. That’s P. This is the way to go. This is the end. This way. Okay. Okay. No. See? Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, I’m not going back. I need I need to go shopping. Like I need four root canals. And it is interesting to me how many people go shopping. No acquisitions. I can’t get that to focus. I’ll be back. All right. I was trying to make sure my phone was on autofocus cuz it doesn’t seem to be picking that up very well. But I think it’s because of it’s so bright. I certainly don’t want to go through here and not have focus on it. Wow. Water. Let’s go here and do a test. Let’s go see if it’ll make sure it’s focusing on this thing. I think it is. I think I’m okay. Sorte restaurant statues. Yeah. [Music] Okay, I think that’s everything everybody except for the outside. So, I’ll be back when I find more to shoot. Bye, everybody. All right, everybody. I found the Empire rooms. Let me center my camera. Sorry about that. These are the Empire rooms. Hallelujah. I’ll just walk down the center really slow. It’s not so crowded here. Everybody kind of bails after the hall of mirrors. It’s a heck of a painting though, I’ll tell you. The color is amazing. I have this one is one of my favorites. Nothing there. Napoleon. It looks like Huh? Napoleon. Sorry about that. He looks like a grumpy old man. Josephine These are Napoleon rooms. I guess maybe that’s why it’s the Empire room. I don’t know. And they have dates 1808 up there, 1810 over here. Oh, the famous one. Here we go. Pretty amazing. Oh, they were all waiting on me. Sorry about that. It’s kind Amazing. I kind of like the tile. See how few people there are here. Really truly a lot of people just come here for the hollow mirrors. They probably are on a tour and they only have like an hour to get through it all and they have to be back at the bus at a certain time. And so after the hollers, it rebales. Well, not everybody, but some people. [Music] I like how they backlight the statues. I think it’s pretty amazing. Huh? Heat. Okay, I think this brings me back around to sort the exit. [Music] Toilets are this way. I think I was just here a minute ago, wasn’t I? Oh, yeah. I came down. I came this way and instead of going left to the exit and the toilets, I went straight. Uhhuh. That’s right. Okay. I’ll be back, everybody.
The Palace of Versailles (/vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ/ vair-SY, vur-SY;[1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles.[2] About 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.[3]
Louis XIII built a hunting lodge at Versailles in 1623. His successor, Louis XIV, expanded the château into a palace that went through several expansions in phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favourite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the de facto capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who primarily made interior alterations to the palace, but in 1789 the royal family and French court returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned and emptied of its contents, and the population of the surrounding city plummeted.
Napoleon, following his coronation as Emperor, used the subsidiary palace, Grand Trianon, as a summer residence from 1810 to 1814, but did not use the main palace. Following the Bourbon Restoration, when the king was returned to the throne, he resided in Paris and it was not until the 1830s that meaningful repairs were made to the palace. A museum of French history was installed within it, replacing the courtiers apartments of the southern wing.
The palace and park were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for its importance as the centre of power, art, and science in France during the 17th and 18th centuries.[4] The French Ministry of Culture has placed the palace, its gardens, and some of its subsidiary structures on its list of culturally significant monuments.
In 1623,[5][6] Louis XIII, king of France, built a hunting lodge on a hill in a favourite hunting ground, 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Paris,[7] and 16 kilometres (10 mi) from his primary residence, the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[8] The site, near a village named Versailles,[a] was a wooded wetland that Louis XIII’s court scorned as being generally unworthy of a king;[12] one of his courtiers, François de Bassompierre, wrote that the lodge “would not inspire vanity in even the simplest gentleman”.[6][13] From 1631 to 1634, architect Philibert Le Roy replaced the lodge with a château for Louis XIII,[14][15] who forbade his queen, Anne of Austria, from staying there overnight,[16][17] even when an outbreak of smallpox at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1641 forced Louis XIII to relocate to Versailles with his three-year-old heir, the future Louis XIV.[16][18]
When Louis XIII died in 1643, Anne became Louis XIV’s regent,[19] and Louis XIII’s château was abandoned for the next decade. She moved the court back to Paris,[20] where Anne and her chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, continued Louis XIII’s unpopular monetary practices. This led to the Fronde, a series of revolts against royal authority from 1648 to 1653 that masked a struggle between Mazarin and the princes of the blood, Louis XIV’s extended family, for influence over him.[21] In the aftermath of the Fronde, Louis XIV became determined to rule alone.[22][23] Following Mazarin’s death in 1661,[24] Louis XIV reformed his government to exclude his mother and the princes of the blood,[23] moved the court back to Saint-Germain-en-Laye,[25] and ordered the expansion of his father’s château at Versailles into a palace.
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