How to explore “Château de Versailles” without traveling to France?
If you like to see Château de Versailles in France from your comfortable couch, Google Arts & Culture has once again completed the process of recreating a virtual reality from the palace that hosted the country's most famous kings.
Louis XIV transformed his father's hunting lodge into the massive Château de Versailles in the mid-17th century and remains today the most famous and luxurious French palace.
Located in the leafy bourgeois suburb of Versailles, 22 km southwest of Paris, the Baroque palace was the political capital of the kingdom and the seat of the royal court from 1682 until the tragic events of 1789 when revolutionaries massacred the palace guards.
From your home, you can check out a new online gallery, entitled “Versailles: The Palace is Yours”.
The new app, VersaillesVR, takes visitors on a virtual reality tour of the Royal Grand Apartments in the palace, church, and opera.
Photogrammetry was used to take pictures, a technique that reconstructs 3D models of objects and landmarks from two-dimensional photographs.
“It is an invitation to discover the secrets of Versailles, and to take a wonderful peek by those who might be planning to visit him,” says Catherine Begard, President of the Palace of Versailles, on Google Blog. We hope this visual immersion will inspire you to do so. ”
Viewers can also watch 18 new online galleries featuring 340 works of art, as well as 18 unprecedented 3D models of rooms and famous objects.
You can also explore the 73-meter-long Hall of Mirrors, King’s Bed, or Marie-Antoinette's jewelry cabinet.
