Fontaine de la Couronne - Maincy, France
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N 48° 33.889 E 002° 42.985
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The fontaine de la couronne (Fountain of the Crown) stands in the gardens of the château de Vaux-le-Vicomte in Maincy, France.
Waymark Code: WMEHGW
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 05/31/2012
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The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
André le Nôtre's garden was the dominant structure of the great complex, stretching nearly a mile and a half (3 km), with a balanced composition of water basins and canals contained in stone curbs, fountains, gravel walks, and patterned parterres that remains more coherent than the vast display Le Nôtre was to create at Versailles.
There is a fountain show every second and last Saturday of each month from March to October at Vaux-le-Vicomte. The fountains are still gravity fed in the same way as they were in the seventeen century: the rain is caught along three aqueducts stretching several kilometers, and falls in a large reservoir. From there, the water feeds the pools and the fountains by gravity. Therefore, the frequency of the fountain show depends on the local pluviometry.
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