The baroque Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, built from 1658 to 1661, is called the “inspiration of Versailles” and found is outside the town of Melun (with rail access), southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of the Île-de-France region.
If you are a romantic, perhaps you’d like to make the short trip out of Paris for the Candelight Evenings, in which the whole chateau is bathed in the warm light of hundreds of candles, or held in summer:
`Every Saturday from May 7th to October 8th from 8.00 pm to midnight (last admission at 11.00 pm). Possibility to enter in the estate before 8p.m.
But there’s more!
Fireworks will be shot on the first and 3rd saturday of the month (except on september 17th) around 10:30 p.m.
There is even a restaurant called “l’Ecureuil” which is open on the candelit evenings.
And to top it all off, there’s a great and informative web site! Vaux le Vicomte.
Chandelles par Milauchau
