Fontainebleau
This Unesco World Heritage site, located Southeast of Paris, was considered by Napoleon as the true home of French kings. Indeed, our monarchs used this place for 800 years as their hunting grounds. It was then embellished by king François Ier with an Italian Renaissance decor. Napoleon occupied the palace and left a throne room, the only one in France to retain its original furniture. Close to another marvel, chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, enjoy a whole day visiting both places at once.
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Information
Admission fee : 12 € per adult. Opening time : 9h30-17h (Oct to March), until 18h (April to Sept).
Highlights
Guided tour of 2h00 through this huge palace showing different periods of French History. Free time for the gardens.
Women of Fontainebleau
Guided visit related to the queens, princesses and courtisans who lived here. And the two empresses of the first and second Empire : Josephine and Eugenie.
My favorite trips around Paris
Join me on one of my favourite guided trips around Paris. Enjoy a visit of la Malmaison, the splendid house where Napoleon and Josephine resided during the Consulate. Monet’s garden at Giverny is a very relaxing and peacefull area, at lunch time especially. Vaux-le-Vicomte is according to me the best palace to discover outside Paris, contemporary to Versailles, but less busy.
