Versailles (ceety)

Versailles
Versailles
	Commune
	Frae tap left tae bottom richt: Le Soir ("The Evening" in the gairdens o Versailles); rue des Deux-Portes; the Château de Versailles taken frae the gairdens; Versailles Cathedral; equestrian statue o Louis XIV, place d'Armes, in front o the Château; Kirk o Notre-Dame, Versailles, parish kirk o the Château; the bassin d'Apollon in the gairdens o Versailles; la salle du Jeu de paume (whaur the Tennis Coort Oath was signed); the Musée Lambinet (municipal museum o Versailles); the Temple de l'Amour ("Temple o Love", gairden o the Petit Trianon)
	Banner o Versailles Banner Coat airms
	Location (in reid) within Paris inner an ooter suburbs
	Coordinates: 48°48′19″N 2°08′06″E / 48.8053°N 2.135°ECoordinates: 48°48′19″N 2°08′06″E / 48.8053°N 2.135°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Île-de-France
Depairtment	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Versailles
Intercommunality	Versailles Grand Parc
Govrenment
• Mayor (2014–2020)	François de Mazières (DVD)
Area 1	26.18 km2 (10.11 sq mi)
Population (2016-01-01)2	87,315
• Density	3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	78646 /78000
Elevation	103–180 m (338–591 ft) ; (avg. 132 m or 433 ft)
	1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance.

Versailles (French pronunciation: [vɛʁˈsɑj] or [vɛʁˈsaj]) is a ceety in the depairtment o the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renained warldwide for its castle, the palace an the gairdens o Versailles, designatit UNESCO Warld Heritage Steids. Accordin tae the 2008 census, the population o the ceety is 88,641^[1] indwallers, doun frae a peak o 94,145 in 1975.

Education

The headquarters o the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University are locatit in the ceety, as well as the ISIPCA, a post graduate schuil in perfume, cosmetics products an fuid flavor formulation.