Pratical information
- We recommend that you buy your ticket in advance online to avoid queues at the ticket office and benefit from special rates.
- During the summer period, the Musical Fountains show are scheduled every weekends, the Musical Gardens from Tuesday to Friday and the Fountains Night Show every Saturday nights, plus Friday July 14th and Tuesday August 15th.
- On days of Musical Fountains Shows or Musical Gardens, the entrance to the Gardens is free only for children under 6 years old.
- The Musical Fountains Shows and Musical Gardens are open-air walking tours.
- You can consult all the opening times and access of the domain on this page.
- Don’t forget to download the Palace’s app for free to find your way around the estate and access the audio guides of the gardens directly on your smartphone.
- The Gardens 2023 subscription card gives you access to all the sessions of the Musical Fountains shows and the Musical Gardens, until October 31st 2023.
The Garden subscription card
The musical fountains show
Set out to explore the fountains and groves with their water features spouting to the rhythm of baroque music. Several circuits are available to enable you to enjoy the numerous masterpieces of the Gardens or lead you to their most secret spots.
You are watching: From April 1st to October 31th 2023 Fountains Shows and Musical Gardens
Dates
- Every Saturday and Sunday from April 1st to October 29th 2023.
- Every Tuesday from May 2nd to June 27th 2023.
- Friday April 7th, Monday April 10th, Monday May 8th, Ascension Thursday the May 18th, Monday May 29th, Friday July 14th, and Tuesday August 15th.
Choose your ticket : the Passport or the Musical Fountains Show ticket
- The Passport :
It gives access to the whole of the Estate : the Palace with timed entry, the Gardens (including the days of the days of the Fountains Shows or the Musical Gardens), the Trianon estate and the Park.
The full price : €28,50
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The reduced rate (under 18, under 26 EU residents…) : €10
The reduced rate of the Passport with timed entry allows the beneficiaries of the free admission to enjoy priority access to the Palace, the Trianon Estate and to the Gardens on the days of the Musical Fountains Shows or the Musical Gardens.
Free admission is granted to children under 6 years old and to holders of the Château de Versailles Spectacles card, the 1 year in Versailles card holders and the members of the Friends of the Palace of Versailles.
Ticket valid for one entry into the Gardens, through the Honour Courtyard of the Palace or the gates of Little Venice, the Menagerie, Neptune or the Dragon. Please note that a second entry is possible, but only through a different gate than the one used for the first entry.
- The Musical Fountains Show ticket : at the price of €10.50 for the full rate and €9 for those benefiting from the reduced rate (pre-sale rates only).To access to the Gardens only, book a Musical Fountains Show ticket.
Book a Musical Fountains Show ticket
Ticket valid for one entry into the Gardens, through the Honour Courtyard of the Palace or the gates of Little Venice, the Menagerie, Neptune or the Dragon. Please note that a second entry is possible, but only through a different gate than the one used for the first entry.
Timetable of the Musical Fountains show
- Groves open from 9am to 7pm*
- Musical displays from 10am to 7pm*
- Watering detailed below
Water displays of the Musical Fountains Show
The fountains are flooded all day long :
- The Neptune Fountain:
- on weekends, Thursday May 18th, Tuesday August 15th : from 10am to 5pm then from 5.45pm to 6.45pm*, 5 minutes every 15 minutes
- on Tuesdays and some public holidays (Friday April 7th, Monday April 10th, Monday May 8th, Monday May 29th and Friday July 14th 2023) : from 10am to 6.45pm*, 5 minutes every 15 minutes
- The Mirror pool: from 10am to 7pm*, 7 minutes every 10 minutes
- The Water Theatre grove: continuously from 10am to 7pm*
Launching in the morning :
- The Great Perspective (the Parterre d’Eau, the Latona’s Fountain and the Apollo’s Fountain) : from 10.30am to 12pm
- The groves and the basins of the Gardens : groves of the Ballroom, the Colonnade, the Girandole as well as the basins of Bacchus and Saturn from 10.30am to 11.30am
Launching in the afternoon on weekends, Thursday May 18th and Tuesday August 15th :
- The Great Perspective (the Latona’s Fountain and the Apollo’s Fountain) : from 2pm to 2.30pm, from 3pm to 4.15pm and from 4.45pm to 5pm
- All the groves and the basins of the Gardens : from 2.30pm to 3.15pm and from 4pm to 4.45pm
- Launching of the Neptune Fountain with a final of historical jets at 5.20
Launching in the afternoon on Tuesdays and some public holidays (Friday April 7th, Monday April 10th, Monday May 8th, Monday May 29th and Friday July 14th 2023) :
- The Great Perspective (the Latona’s Fountain and the Apollo’s Fountain) : from 2pm to 2.30pm, from 3pm to 4.15pm and from 4.45pm to 5pm
- The groves and the basins of the Garden : groves of the Triumphal Arch, the Three Fountains, the Apollo’s Baths, the Dauphin and the Enceladus as well as the basins of the alley of the Marmosets, the Dragon Fountain, the basins of the Syrenes, the Pyramid, Ceres, and Flora, and the Golden Children’s Pool : from 2.30pm to 3.15pm and from 4pm to 4.45pm
The Musical gardens
Enjoy a musical walk during summer: a moment of discovery, in the heart of the French gardens, to discover the groves which are exceptionally open to the public (no water displays of fountains).
Dates
- Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from April 4th to 28th 2023 (except Friday April 7th, day of the Musical Fountains Shows).
- Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from May 3rd to June 30th 2023 (except Thursday May 18th, day of the Musical Fountains Shows).
- Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from Friday July 4thto Tuesday October 31st 2023 (except Friday July 14th and Tuesday August 15th, days of the Musical Fountains Shows).
Choose your ticket : the Passport or the Musical Gardens ticket
- The Passport :
It gives access to the whole of the Estate: the Palace with timed entry, the Gardens (including the days of the Musical Fountains Shows or the Musical Gardens), the Trianon estate and the Park.
The full price : €28,50
Read more : Portland Japanese Garden
The reduced rate (under 18, under 26 EU residents…) : €10
The reduced rate of the Passport with timed entry allows the beneficiaries of the free admission to enjoy priority access to the Palace, the Trianon Estate and to the Gardens on the days of the Musical Fountains Shows or the Musical Gardens.
Free admission is granted to children under 6 years old and to holders of the Château de Versailles Spectacles card, the 1 year in Versailles card holders and the members of the Friends of the Palace of Versailles.
Ticket valid for one entry into the Gardens, through the Honour Courtyard of the Palace or the gates of Little Venice, the Menagerie, Neptune or the Dragon. Please note that a second entry is possible, but only through a different gate than the one used for the first entry.
- The Musical Gardens ticket : €10 for the full price and €9 for those benefiting from the reduced rate.To access the Gardens only, book a Musical Gardens ticket.
Book a Musical Gardens ticket
Ticket valid for one entry into the Gardens, through the Honour Courtyard of the Palace or the gates of Little Venice, the Menagerie, Neptune or the Dragon. Please note that a second entry is possible, but only through a different gate than the one used for the first entry.
Timetable for the Musical Gardens
- Groves open from 9am to 7pm*
- Musical displays from 10am to 7pm*
- Watering detailed below
Water display of the Musical Gardens
The fountains are flooded all day long :
- The Neptune Fountain from 10am to 6.45pm* : 5 minutes every 15 minutes
- The Mirror pool from 10am to 7pm* : 7 minutes every 10 minutes
- The Water Theatre grove from 10am to 7pm*
the night fountains show
The Night Fountains show © Nicolas Chavance
When night falls, the Gardens are transformed to offer a stunning visual and musical treat as fountains and groves come alive with colourful and dramatic lighting effects. This year once more, lighting and stage-effects artists will light up the gardens and display their surprising installations to the strollers: water features in the Mirror Fountain, lasers streaking across the dark in the Colonnade Grove and the fireworks display in front of the Grand Canal by the Groupe F to conclude the evening’s entertainment.
Dates
Every Saturday evening from June 10th to September 23th 2023, and on Friday July 14th , from 8.30pm to 11.05pm, and on two exceptional nights, Tuesday August 15th (Fire Night Show) and Saturday September 23th (Electro Night Fountains Show).
The ticket
The Night Fountains Show ticket : at the price of €31 for the full price and €27 for those benefiting from the reduced price (pre-sale prices only).
Children under 6 years old are free.
Book a Night Fountains Show ticket
Not sure when you’re coming? Opt for the undated ticket, valid on all Saturdays of the Grandes Eaux Nocturnes from June 10th to September 16th 2023.
Book a non-dated ticket
Timetable and watering of the Night Fountains Show display
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Throughout the evening, enjoy the watering of the Gardens :
- from 8.30pm until the end of the event the Great Perspective, Latona’s Fountain and the Apollo’s Fountain
- from 8.35pm to 10.40pm the groves of the Triumphal Arch, of the Ballroom, of the Water Theatre, of the Girandole, of the Dauphin, the basins of Four Seasons, the Mirror pool, and the Orangery garden
- from 8.45pm to 10.40pm the groves and basins of the Colonnade, Enceladus and Obelisk)
- from 20:45pm to 22:30pm the Neptune Fountain 5 minutes every 15 minutes
- from 10.50pm to 11.05*pm the pyrotechnic finale at the Apollo’s chariot fountain
Exceptional nights
- Fire Night Show
The Nocturnes de feu (Fire Night show) honours the royal fires, so dear to the history of Versailles ! It is in a magical atmosphere that you will immerse yourself in this luminous evening punctuated by a sublime firework display by the Groupe F collective.
Tuesday August 15th 2023, from 8.30pm to 11.05pm
Buy a Fire Night show ticket
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The Electro Night Fountains Show
Musical walk in the Gardens of the Château de Versailles, set in water and light, and closing fireworks with original electro music.
Saturday September 23th 2023, from 8.30pm to 11.45pm
Book a Electro Night Fountains Show ticket
The royal Serenade
After the Musical Fountains Shows or before the Night Fountains Shows, the musicians and dancers of the company “L’Éventail” and the “Les Folies Françoises” await you to attend a French-style ball under the gold of the Hall of Mirrors.
Dates and timetable
Every Saturday from June 10th to September 16th, as well as Friday July 14th and Tuesday August 15th 2023.5 sessions (of 40 minutes each) are offered each evening at 6.30pm, 6.50pm, 7.10pm, 7.30pm and 8.00pm.
- The Serenade Royal : at the price of €29 for the full price and €26 for those benefiting from the reduced price (pre-sale prices only).
Children under 6 years old are free.
Book a Royal Serenade ticket
- The Night Fountains Show + Serenade Royal ticket : at a price of €47 for the full price and €40 for those benefiting from the reduced rate (pre-sale rates only).
Book a Night Fountains Show + Serenade Royal ticket
Opening times and acces to the Gardens
The Gardens are open every day and all year from 8.00am.They close at 6pm in low season (November 1st to March 31st).They close at 8.30pm in high season (April 1st to October 31st) with exceptional closing times to prepare the Night Fountains Shows and special other dates (27 May, 29 and 31 October 2023).
Access to the gardens via the South Garden (access via the Court of Honour of Palace of Versailles / Tickets on site), the Neptune Gate (access via the Queen’s Gate, Boulevard de la Reine / Tickets on site at weekends and public holidays only) or the Little Venice Gate (access via the Grand Parc / Tickets on site).
The Dragon Gate is open daily from April 1st to October 31st.
Available online, by phone at +33 1 30 83 78 89 or on site, at the entrance of the Gardens: from the Palace by the Princes’ Courtyard or from the Park by the Little Venice Gate. Ticket allows one entry through the Cour des Princes, or the Little Venice, the Menagerie and the Neptune gates, and a second one by another gate.
Find all the schedules and accesses of the Domain on this page
Source: https://gardencourte.com
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