The Château de Versailles, which has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for 30 years, is one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. The site began as Louis XIII’s hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682. Each of the three French kings who lived there until the French Revolution added improvements to make it more beautiful.
The Orsay Museum, inaugurated in 1986, shows French and International art from 1848 to 1914, thus bridging the gap between the Louvre museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou. The “Masterpieces’ Tour” takes the vistor through the collections and shows some of the most famous works of art of the 19th century.
Typical for 19th century architecture, the “Passages Couverts” are located in the districts of the right bank. From the more than a hundred and forty ones registered in the 1830, only about thirty still exist today, mostly situated between the Palais Royal and the Grands Boulevards.
Supported by French President Jacques Chirac, the Musée du Quai Branly is setting out to showcase the importance of the art and civilization of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas at the crossroads of many different cultural, religious and historical influences.
A museum on the rue de Rivoli with a one-of-a-kind collection. Costumes from the mediaeval times to the year 2000 are on show on models and tell the story of hundreds of years of costume-making and haute-couture.
30 minutes away from Paris, the Golf Feucherolles is ranked among the most beautiful golf courses in western Paris and covers 65 hectares perfectly hilly. Designed by the American architect Poellot JM, the links course is particularly rough, requiring a wide variety of strokes for technical golf players.
