Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Versailles, France

The abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, the masterpiece of François Girardon inspired by the history of the abutment of Persephone or Proserpina, is a group connected in marble completed around 1696, kept at the orangery of the Palace of Versailles.

Wikipedia: Enlèvement de Proserpine par Pluton (FR)

The Latona Parterre is part of the garden of Versailles. Located below the Parterre d'Eau, it was designed by André Le Nôtre, then modified by Hardouin-Mansart.

Wikipedia: Parterre de Latone (FR), Website

The Rond-Point des Philosophes is a crossroads between several alleys of the gardens of Versailles.

Wikipedia: Rond-Point des Philosophes (FR)

The grande commande was a commission ordered by Louis XIV for statues intended to decorate the parterre d’eau of the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, as initially conceived in 1672. The commission, which included 24 statues and four groups, was ordered in 1674. Designed by Charles Le Brun from Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, the statues were executed by the foremost sculptors of the day.

Wikipedia: Grande Commande (EN)

The pyramid basin is a basin of the Versailles gardens.

Wikipedia: Bassin de la Pyramide (FR)

The Royal Opera of Versailles is the main theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, it is also known as the Théâtre Gabriel. The interior decoration by Augustin Pajou is constructed almost entirely of wood, painted to resemble marble in a technique known as faux marble. The excellent acoustics of the opera house are at least partly due to its wooden interior.

Wikipedia: Royal Opera of Versailles (EN)

The North Wing is a part of the Palace of Versailles, France. Built in the 1680s, it is classical in style.

Wikipedia: Aile du Nord (FR)

The King's Grand Apartment is a set of seven salons in the Palace of Versailles designed to be the setting for the monarch's official acts. These salons are very richly decorated, in the Italian fashion of the time of Louis XIV.

Wikipedia: Grand Appartement du Roi (FR)

The Vase of Peace is a marble vase sculpted in 1684 by Jean-Baptiste Tuby. Located on the terrace of the garden of Versailles, it faces the vase of war, sculpted by Antoine Coysevox. It celebrates the Treaties of Aachen and Nijmegen, which ensured peace between France, Spain and Holland.

Wikipedia: Vase de la paix (FR)

The Parterre du Midi is a floral parterre comprising two circular basins, located in the park of the Palace of Versailles.

Wikipedia: Parterre du Midi (FR)

The Queen’s Large Apartment is a set of five lounges located on the first floor of the central body of the Palace of Versailles. These rooms were the reception spaces for the sovereigns of France Marie-Thérèse, Marie Leszczynska and Marie-Antoinette. Also for the Duchess of Burgundy as a dolphin. These spaces are now presented as they were under Marie-Antoinette, when she left them on 6 October 1789.

Wikipedia: Grand Appartement de la Reine (FR)

The Musée de l'Histoire de France is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened in 1837. At the time, it represented an ambitious project of national reconciliation between the hitherto competing narratives of the French monarchy and the French Revolution, to which Louis-Philippe devoted significant personal attention. Whereas it gradually faded in importance as a museum in the later 19th century, its lavish historicist decoration remains a major exemplar of the art of France's July Monarchy.

Wikipedia: Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles) (EN)

This equestrian statue of Louis XIV is a bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV located on the Place d'Armes in front of the Palace of Versailles. Until 2008-2009, it was located in the Cour d'Honneur.

Wikipedia: Statue équestre de Louis XIV (Versailles) (FR)

The Protestant Temple of Versailles is a place of worship located at 3 rue Hoche in Versailles, founded in 1828. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France.

Wikipedia: Temple protestant de Versailles (FR)

Louis Lazare Hoche was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars. He won a victory over Royalist forces in Brittany. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3. Richard Holmes describes him as "quick-thinking, stern, and ruthless... a general of real talent whose early death was a loss to France."

Wikipedia: Lazare Hoche (EN)

The Salles des Croisades is a set of rooms located in the north wing of the Palace of Versailles.

Wikipedia: Salles des Croisades (EN)