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How many palaces in the world have you been to? If you are interested in visiting famous historical palaces, you are likely to know about the Palace of Versailles. The Palace of Versailles, also called as Versailles, is a royal palace located in the Northern France, 18km southwest of Paris (1). It was built under King Louis XIV in 17th century, and became the most well known palace in France nowadays. In 1979, it was added to the Unesco’s World Heritage Sites list- the list of all buildings, monuments or places in the world that have historic and cultural value preserved from the past. Apparently, the Palace of Versailles is one of the most famous royal palaces in Europe because of its valuable history, its beautiful design, and because it was the site of many historic events. First of all, the Palace of Versailles has a great historical value because it represented the power of the monarch at that time. Versailles is “closely associated with King Louis XIV” since he was the one who transformed it from the modest hunting lodge into this wonderful immense palace (2). “Setting on 2000 acres with 12 miles of roads” (3), the palace was redesigned by famous architects at that time such as Louis Le Vau, J.H. Mansark and Andre Le Notre (4). The construction started in 1661, involving thousands of “laborers and craftsmen” (5), and “it took 40 years to complete”(6). During the construction, the gardens and parks were added with numerous flowers and a huge variety of trees. “Every year, more than 210,000 flowers were planted… and in the vegetable gardens, there are an overwhelming 150 varieties of just apple and pear trees alone”(7). All of these made it “one of the most costly and extravagant buildings in the world” (8). Besides the remarkable history of construction, the palace of Versailles was also well known for the prosperous life inside. As a royal palace, it had thousands of people working everyday from serving to cooking, from training horses to maintaining the enormous gardens. For all of those expenses, living in the palace was a high honor. You had to be very rich to afford the costs of living there, and you had to be special persons, for example, “a war hero or a loyal and brilliant high administrator”.
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