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guided tours

During guided tours, a speaker from the Palace invites you into lesser known locations otherwise closed to the visitors. You can also book online tours to discover the backstage of the Castle from your home!

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The "1 year in Versailles" card

The best of Versailles for subscribers! For a whole year, benefit from numerous advantages thanks to the SOLO or DUO cards, and unlimited ticket access from only 65€.

Digital

The Palace of Versailles' Mobile App

The app is completely free of charge. It includes the audioguide tours in English and an interactive map of the Estate.

Facilities

Facilities

Audioguide

To learn more about the Palace during your visit, remember to book the audioguide available in 12 languages. You can pick it up at a special counter in the Vestibule of the Gabriel Pavilion or book it online.

Mobile Application

Mobile Application

Rabbids at Versailles

The Rabbids have invaded the Gardens of Versailles! You have to repair the damage and flush them out to send them back where they came from!

Exhibition at the Science Museum, London

Off-site exhibition

Versailles: Science and Splendour

From 12 December 2024 to 21 April 2025, the Science Museum in London is hosting the exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour, which has been developed with scientific support from the Palace of Versailles. Over one hundred exhibits, some forty of which are from the collections at Versailles, will be assembled to provide an insight into the major role played by science at the court of Versailles in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum

Off-site exhibition

Versailles and China in 120 masterpieces

From 18 December 2024 to 4 May 2025 the Hong Kong Palace Museum is hosting the exhibition The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles, devoted to interactions between China and France in the 17th and 18th centuries. A selection of masterpieces, primarily from the collections of the Palace of Versailles and the Palace Museum, Beijing, tells the story of the special relationship which existed between these two countries during the Ancien Régime.

Show

All shows

The 2024-2025 musical season

The Palace of Versailles is hosting numerous operas, concerts, gala evenings and ballets in some of its exceptional spaces, including the Royal Opera and the Royal Chapel. Check out the programme for the 2024–2025 music season at Versailles.

Format long

Format long

Le Nôtre in perspectives

Discover André Le Nôtre, the Sun King’s gardener, well known for his geometric perspectives, his broad axes which add grand scale to gardens, and his secondary vistas which never fail to delight the eye of the beholder.

Exceptional opening

Congress Chamber

Exceptional opening of the Congress Chamber

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Third Republic, the Palace of Versailles is opening the Congress Chamber and apartment of the President of the Congress and offering a special opportunity to take a self-guided or guided tour.

Show

From April 1 to October 31 2025

The Musical Fountains Show and the Musical Gardens

From April 1 to October 31 2025, enjoy the Musical Gardens and the Musical Fountains Show in the gardens and groves opened for the occasion. Every Saturday evening from 7 June to 20 September, Monday 14 July and Friday 15 August, discover the Gardens in the evening with the The Night Fountains Show.

Exceptional opening

Trianon-sous-Bois

Exceptional opening of Trianon-sous-Bois

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Third Republic, the Palace of Versailles is opening from April 1, in the Grand Trianon, the Trianon-sous-Bois wing. Open every weekend, self-guided and guided tours, from 12:00pm to 6:30pm, and during the week, guided tours only.

On display

New acquisition

The Portrait of Louis XV as a child

An exceptional pastel, the Portrait of Louis XV as a child by Rosalba Carriera, is on display at the palace from Tuesday March 4, 2025. In this intimate portrait of the King, the artist expresses her virtuoso pastel technique in the velvety texture of the skin, the brilliance and softness of the gaze, and the movement and lightness of the curls.

Concert

Sunday March 30th 2025

Bach: Six Brandenburg concertos

In 1721, Bach dedicated a cycle of six concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg, uncle of the King of Prussia. A veritable "art of the concerto" in the manner of Bach, these "six concerts à plusieurs instruments" are of rare virtuosity, involving not only the strings but also various soloists such as the harpsichord and trumpet, in a blend of styles where the Italian concerto dominates, but with an extraordinary science of German-style contrapuntal interweaving, and magnificent French influences.

Patronage

Restoration of the painted ceiling in the Diana Room

The Diana Room occupies a central position in the King’s State Apartment and is one of the jewels in the Palace of Versailles’ crown. In October 2024, the Palace launched a major restoration project in this room. It will focus on the painted and sculpted decoration on the ceiling, and will last for fourteen months.

Opera in staged version

From Friday April 4th to Sunday April 12th 2025

Donizetti : The Daughter of the Regiment

In 1840, crowned with exceptional success, Donizetti gave his first opera in French in Paris: La Fille du Régiment. Versailles has just reopened as a museum dedicated to "all the Glories of France", in which Napoleon is far more honored than Louis XIV, and France is preparing to welcome the return of the Emperor's ashes with fervor.

From March 25

VR - Digital / The Palace

Virtual Reality: The Sun King’s Lost Gardens

For the first time, the Palace of Versailles is opening its doors for an extraordinary virtual reality (VR) journey back in time! Immerse yourself in 1682 and join André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV’s gardener, on a special tour of specific groves of the gardens which are no existing anymore.