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September 30, 2019 Today the Palace of Versailles opens its doors to everyone: it will be accessible virtually all over the world on the Google Arts & Culture platform. Users, thanks to Google technologies, can visit one of the most famous sites in the world with all its rooms, works of art and precious artifacts."Versailles: The Palace is Yours" is an online exhibition for those who cannot visit Paris or who want to explore the Palace in a new way. The project includes 18 virtual tours with over 340 works of art, including high-resolution royal family portraits and photos of the 19th-century Versailles archive, as well as 18 new 3D models of iconic rooms and objects never seen before .
The virtual journey
The virtual tour includes passages in the 73-meter long Galleria degli Specchi in the Camera del Re, up to the precious jewelery cabinet of Marie-Antoinette. Catherine Pègard, president of the Palace of Versailles spoke of a technological "novelty" in the world of culture, which accompanies visitors on a virtual reality tour. To capture the images - he explained - we used photogrammetry, a technology that reconstructs models three-dimensional objects and reference points starting from two-dimensional photographs ". An invitation, in short, to discover the secrets of Versailles through a real visual immersion.