Description of the attraction
"France in Miniature" is an unusual entertainment for both children and adults. This largest miniature park in Europe is located in the nearest suburb of Paris, not far from Versailles. On 5 hectares in the open air, there are 116 models of the main French landmarks - each 1/30 of a life size.
Visitors walk along the cobbled paths and feel like Gullivers in the land of the Lilliputians. No wonder the motto of the park is “Walk across France with the steps of a giant”. Rivers, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, a hundred ships and boats on the water, thousands of dwarf trees (specially selected for each landscape), a railway with a briskly running train, tiny men and, of course, the sights themselves. They are located based on their real location on the map. Corsica island, Saint-Tropez port, Pompadour castle, Saint-Michel monastery, Chartres cathedral, typical French villages - Norman, Breton, Gascon. You can't list everything. Many models are animated: bells are ringing in churches, barking of dogs and mooing of cows can be heard from the villages.
The sights of Paris are located separately: the Sacre-Coeur Basilica on Montmartre (a small funicular creeps up), Place de la Concorde, Les Invalides, Notre Dame de Paris … Of course, the Eiffel Tower is 10 meters high, but it looks like the real thing.
Everything in the park is like the real thing. The author of the project, Dan Olman, worked on this for 15 years, achieving maximum reliability. He only made the gardens of Versailles for about a year! And the Chambord castle took 200 hours of work. And this is understandable: after all, every detail had to be displayed exactly, sculpted in miniature, painted and connected with another equally tiny detail.
The models are in the open air, so they are often restored, or even altered. In general, work on the park does not stop - every year something new appears in this tiny world or the old is updated. Just like in the real world.
