Tips for Your First Visit to Versailles

Find out if visiting Versailles Palace is a good idea for your first day in Paris (or, in our case, France), learn from some rookie mistakes we made, and plan YOUR best trip to this historic and stunningly grand icon of France.

Our next video on Versailles will be of our SECOND trip out there, when we saw the interior, so we'll go into more of the amazing history of the palace then!

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Versailles photo credits
Façade https://www.flickr.com/photos/jlascar...
Facade2 Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Courtyard Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
grand trianon Vincent Torri, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
grand trianon2 Lionel Allorge, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
petit trianon BECARD, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Javel train Florian Pépellin, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Train map P.poschadel and correction by Olivier LPB, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Fountain gags9999, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Garden – no attribution needed
Fountain2 Someone35, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Aerial of ampitheater ToucanWings, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Alley Nanda ramesh, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Aerial from side ToucanWings, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Fountain3 KGwynn, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Ampitheater fountains Yves Tennevin, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... , via Wikimedia Commons
Orangerie Copyleft, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Arbors https://www.flickr.com/photos/1292310...
Picnic area https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtl_sha...