Day 4: Woke up early and had own-made breakfast.Today was raining and the wind is blowing strongly,smoke is coming out of our mouth when we speak.Today we went to The Panthéon first.It was a sort of like a museum with a very big dome in the center of the place.There are alot of big paintings inside.The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris.In 1744, King Louis XV suffered a very serious illness and vowed to dedicate a prestigious church in the name of Saint Genevieve if he were to recover.He did recovered and he entrusted the design to German Soufflot.Unfortunately,Soufflot died before the completion was done and was replaced by his student Rondelet who completed the work in 1790.After the tour in The Panthéon, we made our way to the Palace of Versailles.It's a pity it was raining heavily and there were a bit of construction work doing there.
Palace of Versailles - a royal in château in Versailles.Louis XIII's successor, Louis XIV, had a great interest in Versailles. He settled on the royal hunting lodge at Versailles and over the following decades had it expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world (Félibien, 1703; Marie, 1972; Verlet, 1985). Beginning in 1661, the architect Louis Le Vau, landscape architect André Le Nôtre, and painter-decorator Charles Le Brun began a detailed renovation and expansion of the château. This was done to fulfill Louis XIV's desire to establish a new centre for the royal court. Following the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678, he began to gradually move the court to Versailles. The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682. After the palace tour,we had Mac for dinner and went back to hotel,which ended our day.
Places visited:
1. The Panthéon
2. Palace of Versailles
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