All these years, when I visited the garden in front of the Orangerie in Versailles, I peeked through the windows to catch some glints of the architecture inside. Alas, the doors were always closed.
Surprise: this year for a photo exhibition http://ahae.com the whole place is open and no entrance fee.
Now one can enjoy both a photo exhibitions AND this master piece of architecture designed by the chief architect of Louis XIV: Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708)
Amazing and hard to catch the High Baroque architecture of the gallery (155 m long and 13 m high) with the camera:
The doors are large enough that the trees can unharmed be moved in and out. They give some idea of the 'cathedral' feeling in this 'Ground floor' of the castle.
All year long, the temperature is between 41 and 48 Fahrenheit.
It is actually a three-fer in the summer heat!
