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Versailles (The Summer Palace)Make no mistake, this is more than a mere cottage!
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The Palaise of Versailles, the grandeur is so
immense that I do not know how to describe it. I knew it would be impressive,
but I was totally unprepared for the reality. You could put most of the
United States White House in a wing of this building. I cannot begin
to imagine how anyone alive could maintain this property let alone furnish
it with the art treasures of the west. Many of the paintings that grace its walls, if they could be removed and sold at auction would command literally millions of dollars each. From the front gate, which is
about 100 meters from the nearest building, my widest angle lens could
not capture the entire building. I have no doubt the buildings, gardens
and fountains occupy at least one square mile. I have been told that
in it's best days 20,000 people lived and worked on these grounds. No doubt it took 19,500 of those just to maintain it.
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