Fontainebleau & Vaux-le-Vicomte Day Tour
Paris, France
About This Activity
Discover two spectacular châteaux south of Paris. Vaux-le-Vicomte — whose gardens directly inspired Versailles — was built for Louis XIV's finance minister and features the "jardin à la française" invented by André Le Nôtre. Then tour the Château de Fontainebleau, where seven centuries of French kings and Napoleon shaped European history.
Seasonal note: Vaux-le-Vicomte open April to November only
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