Parks & Gardens
Parks & GardensMarlborough Tower
Versailles
This lakeside tower at Marie-Antoinette's private hamlet looks plucked from a storybook. Built as a fishing pavilion and named after a popular 18th-century ditty about a dead English general, it overlooks the water with an almost too-perfect charm.
Historic fishing tower
Marie-Antoinette's hamlet
Picturesque lake views
18th-century architecture
Tips
đ¶named after a 1722 song about General Marlborough's death
đonce held 27 pike and 2,000 carp in its pond
đŒïžlook for Van Blarenberghe miniatures inside
Marlborough Tower
Versailles
Parks & GardensParks & GardensThis lakeside tower at Marie-Antoinette's private hamlet looks plucked from a storybook. Built as a fishing pavilion and named after a popular 18th-century ditty about a dead English general, it overlooks the water with an almost too-perfect charm.
Historic fishing tower
Marie-Antoinette's hamlet
Picturesque lake views
18th-century architecture
Tips
đ¶named after a 1722 song about General Marlborough's death
đonce held 27 pike and 2,000 carp in its pond
đŒïžlook for Van Blarenberghe miniatures inside