{"id":32868,"date":"2023-06-25T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32868"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:21:23","slug":"vaux-le-vicomte-france-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b7-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=32868","title":{"rendered":"Vaux-le-Vicomte, France \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 23rd June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 15 kms from Melun to Vaux-le-Vicomte  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Port Du Roy Aire. \u20ac11, N48.53550, E02.55410  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: 32 days @ \u20ac100 per day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We shared the aire with 3-4 other campers, enjoying a quiet evening other than a little duff duff in the distance somewhere. Up reasonable early we walk the paths linking the Seine with a number of recreational lakes that make up this park. We hear the rubble of the occasional barge making its way along Seine during our walk but it\u2019s not as busy as the Rhine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we pack up and make ready for the road, set the GPS for Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte. It\u2019s an easy 15 kms with double that number of round-a-bouts. Soon enough we turn into a long tree line boulevard leading to the ch\u00e2teau. I\u2019ve had a marker on Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte in Google for a couple of years after seeing it highlighted on some TV program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As it\u2019s only just opening time we skip the first couple of carparks and turn into a tree shaded area near the gates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte<\/a> was built between 1658 and 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet<\/a>, Marquis de Belle \u00cele<\/a>, Viscount<\/a> of Melun<\/a> and Vaux<\/a>, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV<\/a>. To create his dream Fouquet demolished three nearby villages and set 18,000 workers to the project. It\u2019s not a particularly romantic story as Fouquet would be sent to jail for life by Louis XIV for fraud or as the rumours suggested out of jealousy over Vaux-le-Vicomte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the story goes the King stripped the ch\u00e2teau of its artwork, then used its architect and landscape designer to create the Palace of Versailles some years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway our visit commences after paying \u20ac12 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ch\u00e2teau, with 200 children sitting on the front steps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The young lady selling the tickets tells us there\u2019s is an extensive delay to visit the ch\u00e2teau due to the number of school groups waiting to enter. Undeterred Pam pushes to the front of the queue telling the security guard she\u2019s with the band. We skip passed the kids and straight into our tour. The audio guide is the best we\u2019ve experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reminder you can click on any of the photos and a gallery in full screen will open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pam loves to travel and she loves adventure. Nothing better than a tight spiral staircase to the top of the dome and Vaux-le-Vicomte\u2018s viewing platform. Access to the dome an extra \u20ac5 pp. The views are spectacular and almost worth the extra expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Dome, the horse stables<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After many years of neglect the ch\u00e2teau was sold to Alfred Sommire in 1875, having been restored over many years the ch\u00e2teau is still privately owned by the Sommier family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our visit to the ch\u00e2teau concludes with a walk along the canal and the gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that was our day at the Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, another one off the bucket list. Within 30 minutes we\u2019re back at the aire Port de Roy, leftovers for dinner tonight luckily as where both very tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 23rd June 2023 Travelled: 15 kms from Melun to Vaux-le-Vicomte   Visited: Ch\u00e2teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte   Stayed: Port Du Roy Aire. \u20ac11, N48.53550, E02.55410   Budget: 32 days @ \u20ac100 per day We shared the aire with 3-4 other campers, enjoying a quiet evening other than a little duff duff in the distance somewhere. Up reasonable early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[88],"class_list":{"0":"post-32868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-castles","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32868"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35160,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32868\/revisions\/35160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}