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Advantages: Nice town
Disadvantages: Shame about the palace

...of taste, but to me Versailles is too grandiose, too inhuman in its scale, too tiring to trudge around, somehow too contemptuous of its visitors. * History * The product of envy and self-importance, Versailles got off to a bad start. It was built as a statement rather than a home. Indirectly, Louis' first finance minister, Fouquet by name, was to blame. Fouquet had commissioned the foremost architects and designers of the time to build him ... Read review

Advantages: A fabulous day out
Disadvantages: One day is not enough, you will be exhausted!

...choose from. We chose Versailles Chantiers, but as it happens, it would have made little difference if we had got off at the other one. From the station, it is a pleasant 20 minutes walk to the castle, although had I known how much we were going to walk that day, I might have tried to find a bus or got a taxi. Many of the buildings you see on the way there are contemporary with the castle itself and were connected to it in one way or another. Among ... Read review