Check the end of the post for the surprise 🤭
For this adventure, we switched hotels, as I wanted to visit Versailles palace, and was far away from the centre of Paris (where our current hotel was), so we packed, checked in and took the train station to Versailles.
Versailles is less crowded than Paris as expected, it reminds me of a ghost town in my country, the difference is that this one looks modern and with a bit more traffic. We walked from the train station to the hotel. The weather was unbearable, too hot for, I got so tanned this time, apparently, my new shrimp skin suits me, according to my friends, alas, I hate getting tanned.
Chateau de Versailles is a Unesco world heritage sight and one of the most visited sights in and around Paris. The almighty King of France, known as Sun King, commissioned the Palace and the Gardens to the greatest French artists. The construction ended in 1684 with the Hall of Mirrors. The King wanted to settle at a distance from Paris’s rebellious inhabitants and close to hunting forests. It takes half a day to visit Versailles on a tour from the City of Lights with skip a line ticket.
For the visit to the palace, I decided to opt for a sort of a “princess yet fresh” style, Lila dress with puffed sleeves, my favourite part of the dress was the back, double link with the bow, butterfly-silvered sandals and the best, my tiny Lila bag with a golden heart, I definitely felt like a princess.
As expected, that morning we went to the palace, the queue was long, however, you could get quite quick inside. Once we got inside, they were lots of scan and security checking bags and ourselves.
The door opened to show you what was the entry for the carriages to get inside the palace in the front, walking in history gives me goosebumps every time.
The next way was through the “Royal chapel” all the furniture and decorations inside the palace were exuberant, literally, every corner shines in gold.
The bedrooms and corridors were full of gold, decorations, sculptures and paintings, very loaded with details, I was aware of it, and I knew Louis XIV, the sun king got debts for building this huge family for his nobility and himself, I think, looking at the dimensions and stanzas, you could host the whole Versailles inside.
Funny thing, I saw the bedroom of one of the lovers of the king, I recognised by the green wall carpet, I watched it on Versailles tv show, hilarious 😆 I wonder what they have done with the rest of the stuff in the rooms, like the bathtub, the hairdresser, wardrobes, must be interesting, just being curious, don’t blame me.
The Hall of Mirrors is the largest and most famous room of the Palace of Versailles, the palace commissioned by Sun King, the most powerful monarch of his time in Europe. Overlooking Versailles Gardens, the 17th-century Hall of Mirrors owes its name to the seventeen mirror arches facing seventeen windows overlooking the Park. Each arch contains twenty-one mirrors for a total of 357 mirrors. The Hall of Mirrors’ dimensions are 73m × 10.5m × 12.3m. It has beautifully painted walls and a ceiling.
After 2 hours of walking around the insides and observing carefully some details, we got to the garden, the astonishing part was the garden, huge than the palace itself, we waited for a bit in a queue until we got in, I got a map, in case you’d get lost, always get a map mates, I’m telling you, it’s useful.
The Gardens of Versailles occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles. Situated to the west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectares of land, much of which is landscaped in the classic French formal garden style perfected here by André Le Nôtre. Beyond the surrounding belt of woodland, the gardens are bordered by the urban areas of Versailles to the east and Le Chesnay to the north-east, by the National Arboretum de Chèvreloup to the north, the Versailles plain (a protected wildlife preserve) to the west, and by the Satory Forest to the south.
With Louis XIII’s final purchase of lands from Jean-François de Gondi in 1632 and his assumption of the seigneurial role of Versailles in the 1630s, formal gardens were laid out west of the château. Records indicate that late in the decade Claude Mollet and Hilaire Masson designed the gardens, which remained relatively unchanged until the expansion ordered under Louis XIV in the 1660s. This early layout, which has survived in the so-called Du Bus plan of c.1662, shows an established topography along which lines of the gardens evolved. This is evidenced in the clear definition of the main east–west and north–south axis that anchors the gardens’ layout.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that, In 1979, the gardens along with the château were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for their cultural importance during the 17th and 18th centuries.
From the map, the garden was rich in fountains of a different sort, and each with a name, the king and queen had of course their personal garden, as well as singular groves.
We decided to walk around the garden, most of the people get golf cars otherwise you’ll walk for 2 hours approximately.
But it was fun, I really like all the fountains especially the ones synchronized along with music that plays every 10, 15 minutes, and the groves with the sculptures were lovely and so romantic, I’m such a romantic fellow 😭
I see you get here to the surprise…
Well…
The thing is, when my fiancè and I were walking, we decided to rest for a bit after getting to the king’s garden, so we sat down at this place in the King’s garden:
and then he said:
“I have to ask you something”- getting on his knees with those sweet green eyes of him. I was so surprised, that I couldn’t say a word. “Will you marry me?”.
I won’t say anymore, I cried like Magdalene Mary, don’t worry, I said yes! it felt like a fairytale.
This was the best trip ever 💓Thanks universe
Many blessings to all of you 🥰
Dancing Giglio 
Wow! What a beautiful place! The gardens are incredible.
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They really are!! Like a fairy tale 🧚🧚♀️
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