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A day outside the city: the châteaux, Champagne, the gardens.
Five recommendations, each checked every 7 days.
The championship course of Le Golf National at Guyancourt, near Versailles, where Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup and the 2024 Olympic golf was played, reopened in 2026 after two years of rebuilding.
Checked 7 November
Napoleon III's court theatre of 1857 at the Château de Fontainebleau, 400 seats with its original stage machinery and sets, opened only for a 45-minute guided tour.
Checked 7 November
A 1½-hour tour, led by a palace guide, of the private rooms of Louis XV and Louis XVI that lie behind the Grand Apartments of Versailles.
Checked 7 November
The court theatre Ange-Jacques Gabriel built for Louis XV inside the Château de Versailles, opened in 1770 and used today for a season of opera, concerts and ballet.
Checked 7 November
Dinner for 16 at one table in the Salon Doré of the Trianon, the Moët family's early 19th-century house on the Avenue de Champagne in Épernay, after an hour in the cellars.
Checked 7 November
A day outside the city: the châteaux of Versailles, Chantilly and Vaux-le-Vicomte, the houses of Champagne, and the gardens at Giverny.
