Guided tour Behind the scenes

Name: Visita guiada El revés de la decoración
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de Fontainebleau

By Alexandre Quinzan, operating managers in the management of buildings and gardens or Alexandre Bouclon, a lecturer guide of the Château...

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

By Alexandre Quinzan, project managers in the management of buildings and gardens or Alexandre Bouclon, Château’s lecturer guide Discover how a castle is built and the different ways to decorate it. Away from the ceremonial apartments reserved for sovereigns, the visit will lead you to the discovery of guest apartments reserved for passing courtiers and their servants. Good to know: many steps to climb!

About the location

Château de Fontainebleau

Place du Général de Gaulle 77300 Fontainebleau

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

Palace with 1,500 rooms spread out in the heart of 130 hectares of park and gardens. Residence of the French sovereigns since the 12th century, entirely rebuilt by François I who kept only the keep formerly inhabited by King Saint Louis, and had a sumptuous interior decoration executed by Italian artists under the direction of Rosso and the Primatice (group of artists known as the Fontainebleau School). Notably enlarged by Henri IV, modified from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by his successors, who partly destroyed the decoration of the sixteenth century.
Photo: The Grille d'Honneur and the Cour des Adieux Frédéric Perrot