Parks & Gardens
Parks & GardensVersailles
Wander the same nine hectares where Louis XIV's gardener coaxed out-of-season strawberries for the Sun King. Today, 17 gardeners continue the 17th-century art of espalier, cultivating 300+ fruit varieties and heirloom vegetables that still taste like royalty intended.
Tips
June 12
Wander through the same kitchen gardens that fed Louis XIV's court, where neat rows of vegetables and fruit trees still produce harvests today. It's a peaceful, earthy counterpoint to the palace's gilded halls, just two minutes from the main gates.
June 13 at 5pm
Wander through Louis XIV's royal kitchen garden as vegetables, fruits, and insects come alive with "juicy confidences" and "spicy dialogues." This promenade theater stitches together short scenes from contemporary authors, performed among the plots where Molière's troupe once played.
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Parks & GardensParks & GardensWander the same nine hectares where Louis XIV's gardener coaxed out-of-season strawberries for the Sun King. Today, 17 gardeners continue the 17th-century art of espalier, cultivating 300+ fruit varieties and heirloom vegetables that still taste like royalty intended.
Tips
June 12
Wander through the same kitchen gardens that fed Louis XIV's court, where neat rows of vegetables and fruit trees still produce harvests today. It's a peaceful, earthy counterpoint to the palace's gilded halls, just two minutes from the main gates.
June 13 at 5pm
Wander through Louis XIV's royal kitchen garden as vegetables, fruits, and insects come alive with "juicy confidences" and "spicy dialogues." This promenade theater stitches together short scenes from contemporary authors, performed among the plots where Molière's troupe once played.
