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Versailles is a city in France, Yvelines department prefecture in Ile-de-France region, south-west of Paris.
The city was built in desire Versailles King Louis XIV with the construction of Versailles Palace, his residence. For this reason the city has a rational and symmetrical grid of streets. In eighteenth-century standards, Versailles was a very modern European city and was used as a model for the design of Washington DC by Pierre Charles Junior.
Versailles was the kingdom's de facto capital of France, from 1682 until 1789. Today is a rich suburb of Paris and an important legal and administrative center. Versailles, located 17 km from the center of the French capital draws over 3 million tourists annually.
Versailles City build their assets, resulting from an extraordinary historical past, through exhibitions, restoration and enrichment of existing collections. Cultural life of the city of Versailles is not limited to its historical heritage but also various institutions that promote culture today: the School of Fine Arts, Academy of Equestrian Art, etc..
Besides the Palace and Park of Versailles, monuments that have been submitted in 1979 on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage, tourists can visit Lambient Museum, one of the most beautiful private hotels in Versailles, a legacy of eighteenth-century royal city century and the nineteenth century, exhibiting regularly in the works of contemporary artists, or Montansier Theatre, a small architectural gem, opened in 1777 by Louis XVI, etc..
Versailles | Versailles is a city in France, Yvelines department prefecture in Ile-de-France region, south-west of Paris.
The city was built in desire Versailles King Louis XIV with the construction of Versailles Palace, his residence
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