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Saturday, 20 June 2026
29 facts about Palace of Versailles
29 facts about Palace of Versailles
Former residence of the kings of France
The Palace of Versailles is one of the largest palace complexes in Europe. It is part of the historical and cultural heritage of France, as a symbol o ...

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Villa Tugendhat
The treaty on the division of Czechoslovakia was signed at the Tugendhat villa.
In 1992, a summit meeting was held there, at which the treaty on the division of Czechoslovakia into ...
Lighthouse of Alexandria
At the time of its commissioning, the Faros lighthouse was the tallest structure that was not a pyramid.
Space Needle
CHEESE, short for The Committee Hoping for Extra-terrestrial Encounters to Save the Earth, believes that Space Needle was built to transmit signals to other advanced civilizations from outside our Solar System.
Palace of Versailles
The king purchased the lands of the Gondi family and ordered the expansion of the building into a three-winged hunting lodge, and a park was established on 70 ha of land adjacent to the palace.
To this day, the hunting lodge is the core of the palace complex at Versailles, enclosing the marble courtyard.
Malbork Castle
After the Battle of Grunwald and as a result of previous military operations in the years 1409-1411, the Teutonic treasury, until then the most powerful and richest in Europe, began to run empty.
The Prussian Confederation, created from dissatisfied subjects (burghers and lay knights) of the Teu ...
Great Wall of China
The Wall of China is about 2,700 years old.
Spanish Steps
At the top of the stairs sits the 16th-century church Trinita dei Monti, part of the French Community of Emmanuel.
The church was built by order of Louis XII, King of France, who owned the land (previously, there wa ...
Spanish Steps
In the southern part of Spanish Square, opposite the Spanish Embassy, rises the column of the Immaculate Conception from the 19th century, which combines antiquity (Corinthian column) with modern times (statue of the Virgin Mary on the top).
Colosseum
There was a clear division into social status in the stands.
The lowest rows were occupied by senators, the highest by women, slaves, and the poor.
Palace of Versailles
The period of Versailles' splendor ended with the French Revolution, which broke out in 1789.
King Louis XVI returned to Paris, and the palace, deprived of its royal court, began to decline. The ...