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In Versailles, the Trianon estate is getting a makeover

2022-06-29T15:57:07.596Z


Ephemeral flowerbed, lake restored... Visitors to the Palace of Versailles discover the new environment of Marie-Antoinette's refuge.


After two years of pandemic, life resumed its course in Versailles.

At the castle, but especially in the 800-hectare park.

“With this health crisis, our taste for nature has strengthened.

Today, we all need to get some fresh air

, recognizes Catherine Pgard, President of the Palace and National Estate of Versailles.

This place is fortunate to have a plant heritage as unique as its buildings, a garden that opens onto fountains and statues.

Already, in his time, Louis XIV wanted it to be an open-air museum, a living room of greenery and we are constantly perpetuating this vision.

Little by little, the park of Versailles offers new routes to encourage visitors to get lost in nature.

To discover

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During the confinement, the teams of Jacques Moulin, the chief architect of the gardens, and those of Alain Baraton, his gardener, worked on the rehabilitation of the green spaces of the Trianon.

"We had to rebalance the tourist offer between this area and the castle"

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Source: lefigaro

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