The gardens and Park of the Chateau de Versailles are certainly the most amazing gardens of Europe. Louis XIV was the French King who decided to undertake works to build an incredible garden, because he considered that the view from the Chateau was just as important as the Chateau itself.
The gardens are visible from any point in the back of the Chateau de Versailles. Every year, thousands of tourists from all around the world can admire the beauty of its perfection, and also admire numerous fountains.
Even though the original perspective of these gardens were existing under Louis XIII, his son Louis XIV developed them even more and officially appointed Andre Le Notre who designed the gardens, but also Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Superintendent of the King’s Buildings, and Charles Le Brun, First painter of the King who produced the drawings for a large number of statues and fountains of the Versailles Park. Then he also appointed architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart who was the creator of the Orangerie.
Louis XIV loved details and he required from his team of architects and builders, that all projects would have to be submitted to him first, and he wanted all the details about the constructions, even the smallest.
The undertake of such colossal works took many months to be done. It required thousands of men, especially since the place where these gardens are, were only woods, grasslands and marshes. The dirt was transported by means of wheelbarrows, and the trees were transported by cart from all the provinces of France.
The Chateau de Versailles is a UNESCO World Heritage for 30 years now, and it is one of the most beautiful achievements of the 18th century French art. At first, is was just a humble hunting lodge, but all of the three Kings (Louis XIII, Louis XIV and Louis XV) who lives there until the French Revolution added improvements to make it more beautiful. And Louis XV was the King who chose the site to build the palace we know today and that represents a symbol of royal absolutism and embodiment of classical French art.
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