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Versailles and Sun King’s Vegetable Garden

A gastronomic tour of the city of Versailles

6 hours

All year round, except Mondays

Breakfast and tastings at the market

with guide

WHAT BRINGS US HERE
Few people know but Louis XIV, who was a great gastronome, created in the gardens of the Château de Versailles a vegetable garden worthy of a king who had changed French cuisine forever. To this garden is credited great advances in the techniques of creating 300 more varieties of fruits, vegetables and greens that grew all the year and were served in the king’s table.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN
A visit of one most beatifull vegetable Garden in the world. We will know its roots, its microclimates and its importance in the history of French cuisine.

THIS TOUR INCLUDES

– Entrance and guided tour in Horta of King Louis XIV

CAN BE INCLUDED
– Car with driver
– Lunch with guide
– Tickets for the Chateaux de Versailles
– Guided tour of the castle

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As told by her sister-in-law, Princess Palatine – Elisabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, the wife of her brother Philippe d’Orléans, Louis XIV would eat at a conventional royal dinner four plates of soups, a whole pheasant, a partridge, a large salad dish, two large slices of ham, juicy pieces of lamb with garlic sauce, assorted sweets, fruits, and boiled eggs. However, it is said that in the morning, the king would have only two cups of tea and would not eat anything else until dinner.

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