Guided tours of the Filters Pavilion in Versailles

Name: Guided tours of the Filters Pavilion in Versailles
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Pavillon des Filtres

Visit of the Pavilion of Filters preceded by a presentation of the history of water in Versailles.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Jean Siaud

Guided tours by groups of 15 people at 3pm on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September.
The Pavilion of filters built at the end of the reign of Louis XVI by the King’s Buildings Directorate to improve the quality of drinking water distributed at Versailles, constitutes an exceptional testimony of the hydraulic technique of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The water of Seine then, later the water of the Croissy boreholes, raised by the Marly Machine reached the pavilion by an underground aqueduct and was cleaned by gravity in successive bins to feed the city of Versailles, directly or via the Picardie Basin and one of the Montbauron Reservoirs.
Redesigned with a charcoal filtering system and equipped with an aeration lantern at the end of the 19th century, the Pavillon des filtres coupled to the Picardie Basin was used until 1964. It was then abandoned and saved from ruin by its classification as a Historic Monument in 1979. In 1996, it was completely restored by the Heritage Department.

About the location

Pavillon des Filtres

Square Royal-Picardie 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Built at the end of the reign of Louis XVI by the Direction des Bâtiments du Roi to improve the quality of the "good to drink" water distributed in Versailles, this building is an exceptional testimony of the hydraulic technique of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Redesigned and equipped with its lantern at the end of the 19th century, the Pavillon des filtres was used until 1964, like the Bassin de Picardie which is close to it. The water coming from the Marly Machine, then from the Croissy boreholes, arrived at the pavilion by an underground aqueduct and purified itself by gravitation in successive basins before feeding the City of Versailles, directly or via the Bassin de Picardie and one of the Montbauron reservoirs. Listed as a historical monument in 1979, it was completely restored in 1996 by the Heritage Department. The Bassin de Picardie, built in 1783, and its Pavillon épuratoire, built in 1785 and which foreshadowed the Pavillon des filtres, are included in the visit.