Versailles hotels collection

To people his town, the king gave away the land, provided one built to his architects' models, the roofs below the level of the Marble Court: the palace had to see over them. The avenues fan out from the Place d'Armes in a goose foot, between stone houses capped with slate. The King's Kitchen Garden still trains its pear trees against walls that give back the day's warmth at night. At the far end of the Pièce d'eau des Suisses stands a copy of a horseman Bernini had carved with the king's features; it displeased him so much that it was made into a Roman hero and banished there.