Today we went to Versailles to start with. We had to take a different train to get there since the flooded is starting to close some train lines. It still didn't take us more than 35 mins to get there. That thing is huge. It's in the middle of a town but in its day it was in the middle of nowhere. We learned in class that it was built by Louis XIII to keep the whole court under one roof so they couldn't scheme behind is back and try to overthrow him since he was pretty young when he came to power. He built is outside of Paris to keep them away from everyone and even built his bedroom in the very middle of the palace so he could know what was going on. Marie antoinette later lived here to. We also learned that she said "let them eat cake" because they were taxing bread so high that the people couldn't afford it so she was saying that you can't tax everything. If you are going to tax bread let them still have cake and other foods to eat. It once held 10,000 people counting all the servants and the courts family. You should look up photos of it because it is so large. Also they have a free audio tour if you ask which was really nice since all the other museums have audio tours that cost a lot of money. I felt like it was really a good idea to do the audio because Jessica and I got a lot more out of the trip than other group members who didn't know about the audio. I thought this crown molding craved out of stone was pretty amazing. I also loved the indented textured wall paper! I have never seen anything like that and think it would be so cool in a house. It had almost identical floors to the Louvre. My teacher said that he has never seen so few tourists there. I couldn't image it with more. There were times when it felt pretty crowded and it was hard to see the rooms. I never thought of using stones to create molding but its pretty cool and I can only image how hard that must have been. Here is a painting that was on the ceiling. This one on the wall was suppose to be done by some amazing painter at the time. I know some of the photos below look like they are the same ceiling but almost all are of different ceilings. Hall of MirrorsThis is the main reason we came to Versailles. Back in the day having a mirror meant you were wealthy so having like a whole hall meant you were like really wealthy. Personally it felt kinda cheesy but back then it was amazing. It was the most popular room in the palace so as you can see there was a lot of photo bombing going on. I didn't know that I wanted my napkins folded like water lilies but now I expect nothing less. (Jk but I do really like them) This is the back side of the palace with the gardens. It was just added on to by every king, it originally started as a smaller hunting palace. If you look up pictures of the gardens in the summer they look so amazing. I wish we would have seen it in the summer with all the fountians on. This is at Marie Antoinette estate that is on the grounds. It took us 30 mins to walk there from the main palace. Her estate really wasn't even close to the edge of the grounds!! This place is so large. This was on the walk to Hamlet Village. Marie antoinette wanted to see what it was like to be a commoner so she had part of the gardens dug up and replanted in english style and then had sheep brought in. She would dress up as a shepherd and pretend to herd sheep that had been washed and cleaned just for her to move around. She thought it was pretty fun to the a peasant. It took us over an 1 hour from the main place to get to Hamlet village. Then we walked to the Paris Temple. It was only 15 mins from one of the exits at the Versailles. Then as a group we all went to the opera. It was in the opera house that supposedly is what the phantom of the opera is based off of but I'm not 100% sure about that. It was an amazing building. The inside really wasn't that large on the inside seat wise. I was surprised that it didn't hold more people. It was a very nice opera but it was in french so I'm not really sure what was going on. The first photo is of Molly and I. We found out that we are 8th cousins with her sister Anna who isn't in this pictured. The next photo is of Julieann and me. She's super nice and is graduating this semester from IS so it’s been nice to hear all about the program that I would really like to do. The last photo is the ceiling of the opera house. It is really amazing.
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Links to all the days 1/20 - Salt Lake City to Paris 1/21 - Eiffel Tower, Arche De Triomphe 1/22 - The Louvre, Notre Dame 1/23 - Musee d'Orsay 1/24 - Musee Rodin, Pantheon, Saint Chapelle, Conciergerie, Louvre, and Musee National De L'Orangerie 1/25 - Picasso Musee, the Pompidou, and Notre Dame 1/26 - Versailles, Paris Temple, and the Opera 1/27 - Top of the Arche De Triomphe 1/28 - Church 1/29 - Le Procope and Sacre Coeur 1/30 - Pere Lachaise Cemetery 1/31 - Homework Day 2/1 - The Catacombs, Shakespeare and Co. and Street Artists 2/2 - Natural History Museum 2/3 - Homework and Organ Recital 2/4 - Church 2/5 - Rouen Cathedral/Museum and Bayeux Tapestry 2/6 - D-Day sites (Normandy) and Mont Saint Michel 2/7 - Chartres Cathedral 2/8 - Disneyland Paris 2/9 - Petit Palace and Ballet 2/10 - Flight to Rome 2/11 - Church, Walk, And Saint Peter's Basilica 2/12 - Capitoline Museum, Ponte Saint Angelo, and Panteon 2/13 - San Pietro in Vincoli, Forum, Palatine & Coliseum and Imperial Fori 2/14 - Priscilla Catacombs, Piazza del Popolo, Masoleum of Augustus & Ara Pacis 2/15 - Santa Pudenziana, St. Maria Maggoire, Santa Prassede, S. Martino ai Monti, Baths of Trajan and Domus Aurea 2/16 - Free day to Tivoli : Villa d'Este 2/17 - Homework, Homework, Homework and Gelato! 2/18 - Church, more Gelato and Pizza! 2/19 - Santa Maria in Trastevere, San Frencesco a Ripa, Aventine Hill, Santa Sabina, Santa Maria in Cosmed, Temples of Hercules & Portunus 2/20 - Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Basilicia 2/21 - Free Day 2/22 - Florence Trip: Orvieto, Duomo, San Brizio Chapel, San Lorenzo, Baptistry, San Lorenzo, Medici Chapel 2/23 - Santa Trinita, San Marco, Uffizi Museum, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo 2/24 - Back to St. Johns, Palazzo Ruccellai, Orsanmichelle, Bargello Museum, Brancacci Chapel 2/25 - Church 2/26 - Baroque Rome Bernini and Borromini Churches: Santa Maria Degli Angeli, Santa Maria Degil Vittoria, Santa Susanna, San Carlino, Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, Trevi Fountain 2/27 - San Giovanni Dei Fiorentini, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Spada, Farnesina, Tiempietto 2/28 - Villa Borghese and Review Session 3/1 - Sant’Agostino San Luigi dei Francesi, St. Mary & the Martyrs, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Sant’Ignazio, Il’Gesu, Sant’ Andrea d. Valle, La Sapienza, Chiesa Nouvo, Santa Agnes in Agone Foutain of Four Rivers, St. Maria della Pace, and St. Peter’s Basilicia 3/2 - Group Dinner (Finals and packing) 3/3 - Flight to London, Unpacking, and First London Walk 3/4 - Church and Homework 3/5 - First day of class, London Walk 3/6 - St. Pauls and Guildhall 3/7 - Tower of London, Primark (aka Heaven) 3/8 - Southwark Cathedral, Borough Market, South of Thymes walk 3/9 - Do Your Own Thing, HAHAHAHAH JK. Homework :-() 3/10 - Canterbury Cathedral, Dover Castles and War Tunnels 3/11 - Church 3/12 - Sick 3/13 - British Library, British Museum, and The Magna Carta 3/14 - Winsdor Castle and Mcdonalds 3/15 - Hampton Court and Ben's Cookies 3/16 - Jane Austen House, Bath, Roman Baths, Stonehenge 3/17 - Do Your Own Thing , but like not really because you have so much homework 3/18 - Church Categories |