The neatest thing, in my opinion, about Versailles is that it has a whole bunch of working water fountains that were built and used without the aid of electricity. The fountains are rarely running now a days simply because it takes a whole bunch of work to keep them going. If I'm not mistaken, during the non-summer months you have to be on the grounds from 2 to 5 on Sunday afternoons to see them going. It is certainly worth working it into your schedule. The foutain pictured here seems to be one of the main ones, but certainly not the grandest, nor the largest. My favorite one is down the way a bit and includes all these cool horses and chariots coming out of the water. Honestly, the grounds are so overwhelming I just quite even trying to take pictures. Notice that there are statues along the pathway. They are incredible, and all over the place. You can also see the stream of another fountain out in the distance, that is one of the tall ones, you likely pass about four smaller ones just to get to that tall one. And this is only one fourth of the gardens!! No wonder it took forty years to build.
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