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Chateau
de Villette
 A Taste of France in Paris will find you at home at the Chateau de Villette, just a 30 minute drive northwest from the City of Lights.
Designed by Mansart, the architect of Versailles, The Chateau de Villette is centuries old. The doors of the Chateau have opened many times for French nobility such as the Marquise de Lafayette (the first honorary citizen of Kathryn Copeland’s native Virginia). And the vast private grounds still reflect the design of Le Notre, the landscape architect for Louis XIV. Impeccably renovated in recent years, the chateau has eighteen bedrooms, each with a private bath, and elegant features for gracious living and your relaxing enjoyment.
Your stay at the Chateau de Villette will feature haute cuisine at the Chateau, throughout the surrounding countryside and in the heart of Paris. You will take a class at the famed Escoffier Cooking School at the Ritz Hotel. And everyday your Taste of France hosts will lead you in search of fun and French adventure. We will go to Chateauneuf-du-Pape where you will find some of the best wines France has to offer, and also to Reims, where every King of France was crowned, to taste French Champagne in the caves, and dine at Les Crayeres, the 3 star Michelin Restaurant rated number one in the world by Conde-Nast Traveler Magazine, as well as a host of other publications.
Perhaps you’ll want to explore little known museums that most touring visitors seldom find. Perhaps we’ll stop at the cafes where Hemingway and Sartre once lingered, or explore the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise to admire the ornate monuments honoring the little-known and the infamous, such as Frederic Chopin, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde. We’ll certainly wander through the Marche aux Puce (Flee Market) with Sophie Decrion, exploring antique shops and boutiques. Or if you prefer, you may relax and lounge at the chateau, enjoying 180 acres of landscaped gardens, many beautiful fountains, a quiet chapel, the serene library, a game of tennis and the privileged life that has been part of the Chateau de Villette for almost four hundred years.
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