Our company also offers to take part in an excursion to the Château de Fontainebleau as part of a mini-group of 7 people. The individual tour starts from any place in Paris that is convenient for the participants. Depending on the number of passengers, the trip will be carried out by car or minibus. On the high-speed A6 highway, at 130 kilometers per hour, the group will head south of Paris. And at the end of the tour, tourists will be taken to the hotel where they stayed, or to another necessary address.
The first stage of the excursion is a visit to the Château de Fontainebleau:
The Château de Fontainebleau is located at a distance of 60 kilometers from Paris and it is one of the most beautiful castles in all of France.
The castle reached its heyday during the reign of King Francis I. There was a time when he had to leave his beloved castles standing in the Loire Valley, where all the French monarchs had lived since the beginning of the famous Hundred Years' War. Francis returned to Paris, which at that time was a gray medieval city. The king did not like it here at all, and then he remembered the ancient, majestic, but abandoned castle of Fontainebleau.
Since then, this place has become a favorite place for many French monarchs to stay. The Renaissance era reigned in the courtyard, and architects and gardeners, sculptors and the best painters, who lived at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci himself, took direct part in the revival of the castle. By the way, Francis I knew him personally. He was a participant in several Italian wars, from where he brought many antique objects, many paintings and manuscripts, which became the main decoration of Fontainebleau.
The basis of the entire architectural ensemble is the palace itself. Its façade appeared under Napoleon I, it overlooks the courtyard of the White Horse, where numerous celebrations and knightly tournaments were previously held.
A wide staircase with gentle steps, made in the form of two horseshoes, as if attached to each other, leads to the palace. It also has a massive stone balustrade.
This castle is of great importance in the formation of French history, where Henry II and Henry IV, Louis XIV and Louis XVI, as well as Napoleon I, also played a role. It was in Fontainebleau that he signed his abdication of the throne, in his beloved residence.
In 1919, the castle of Fontainebleau became a national museum and at the moment it contains a large and rich collection of masterpieces of applied art.
The second stage is the small village of artists Barbizon::
Barbizon is a small village that served as a colony-settlement for landscape painters, located near the Château de Fontainebleau. For five decades, it attracted many artists who painted stunning landscapes directly from nature. It was here in the 19th century that such great artists as Narcisse Diaz and Charles Daubigny, François Millet and others worked among the picturesque nature. They founded a movement in painting that was named after the village - the Barbizon school. The main motifs in the work were flowers and simple everyday scenes, in which a variety of colors, the brilliance of light and the transparency of the air are beautifully conveyed.
The main achievement of the inhabitants of Barbizon is the creation of new painting techniques, including the transfer of direct impressions, the method of tonal painting, saturation with light and color.
Later, the emerging Barbizon school made a serious contribution to the development of French impressionism, as a movement in general, and to painting throughout Europe as a whole.
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