The Grandes Eaux Nocturnes: the magic of Versailles

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The Grandes Eaux Nocturnes of Versailles ends with a big fireworks display. RFI / Edmond Sadaka

It is a magical spectacle offered by the Château de Versailles, every Saturday evening of summer and until September 21st. Visitors are invited for a 2h30 walk to the rhythm of Baroque music in the sumptuous French gardens of the estate. An impoundment of water and fountains and groves, crowned by a large fireworks display. RFI offers you a visit in image.

Visitors to the Grandes Eaux Nocturnes at the Château de Versailles are invited to discover a magical course where ponds and groves are put in water and colors at dusk.

The public can relive the evenings of Louis XIV in these sumptuous French gardens imagined in the mid-seventeenth century by the gardener André Lenôtre.

This year again, artists of the light make shine the gardens of a thousand fires and propose to the walkers their surprising installations, aquatic effects in the alleys and groves of Versailles. Fireworks fired in front of the Grand Canal by the group F closes the evening. Every Saturday from June 15 to September 21, 2019 from 8:30 pm to 11:05 pm.