Located In the Grand Stable of Louis XIV (Just across the street from the château main courtyard).

"Les Matinales des Ecuyers" - Morning sessions

"La Reprise Musicale" - Musical Performance

"La Reprise Musicale Nocturne" - Night Musical Performance

PR contact : Amélie le Gonidec
Tel: 01 39 02 62 72 - Fax: 01 39 02 07 96 - E-Mail: a.legonidec@acadequestre.fr

Built like a theater decor, this wood beams structures horse arena is divided into two spaces: the stage lined up with mirrors and enhanced by a Jean Louis Sauvat's original sculpture and the Multi levels Auditorium ornate with horses related frescoes.

Fifteen Murano's leaves chandeliers created by Jean Lautrey carry the reflections of the horsemen into the mirrors.

Following the show, you will exit through the Nuno Oliveira "Foyer " hosting temporary exhibits, then stroll along the stables, built around the horses "warming arena". Thirty stalls, marked with name tags of each horse and a luminous unicorn, shelter all the Academy horses among which blue eyed, creamy robe " Lusitanian's', three black Arab thoroughbreds and eight gray " Argentine Criollos ", who are performing during the three feature presentations.

"Les Matinales des Ecuyers " or Morning Sessions.

Spectators are indulged into watching the musical background training of the horses by advanced apprentice horsemen, each one being responsible for one young horse still in training and one veteran horse. At the end of the show, you will exit through the stables.

"La Reprise Musicale" - Musical Performance

Choreographed by world-renowned equestrian "Bartabas" and accompanied by Baroque Music compositions, "La Reprise Musicale" is a real performance handled by the advanced apprentice horsemen of the Academy.
The 2005 version is featuring scenes such as: the master's lesson, the fencing lesson, the long reins carrousel, and the apprentice horsemen carrousel. The finale is an amazing equestrian improvisation. At the end of the show, you will exit through the stables.

"La Reprise Musicale Nocturne" - Night Musical Performance

The Academy features 10 exclusive evening shows giving the spectators the opportunity to contemplate the arena under its sophisticated and harmonious light display.

Across the street from the Royal Residence, Jules Hardouin Mansart, the later architect of Versailles, built from 1679 to 1683, two identical buildings meant to shelter he 600 royal horses.

I t was also the home of all the horse related staff, the court Musicians and the nobles help.

In 2002 these grounds were turned back to their original purpose thanks to the Versailles Château Association, which selected world-renowned horseman Bartabas to give it a new start. Architect Patrick Bouchain, with whom Bartabas had worked previously on equestrian shows, was given the task of building a showcase for Bartabas's Versailles exclusive representation. These shows pinpoint the exceptional relationship between men and horses.