Château Louis XIV recently became the most expensive apartment in the world! It was sold to an anonymous buyer from the Middle East for an incredible 301 million US dollars (275 million euros), thus beating the previous record of a penthouse in London (One Hyde Park), which was sold in 2011 for 221 million dollars (192 million euros). Although reminiscent of a 17th century château (the time of the reign of the Sun King aka Louis XIV), the opulent château located on the outskirts of Paris was actually only built in 2011.
Château Louis XIV, the newly built most expensive apartment in the world, offers as much as 4,650 square meters of living space, which lies in the heart of a 40-hectare park. It consists of ten residential apartments, a library, and a reception room with a 16-meter ceiling decorated with frescoes, outdoor and indoor swimming pools, a wine cellar for 3,000 bottles, a squash court, two dance halls and one cinema hall, a meditation dome with a ceiling aquarium, an underground night club…
We find in the park a gilded fountain (replica of the Apollo fountain of Versailles with gold leaf statues, the clock on the front of the mansion is also the same as the Palace of Versailles), riding trails, hedge maze and marble statue(s). The park was inspired by the Sun King's gardener, landscape architect André Le Notre, who signed the famous Versailles park.
Château Louis XIV, which can boast of as many as 13 types of marble and 15 thousand gold cubes, "absorbed" into the decor, he reminded himself when they were looking for a wedding venue Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, but today it is a mansion from 2011, designed as a castle from the 17th century (modeled after the Château de Vaux), after a fat bargain in the hands of the buyer from the Middle East, who wished to remain anonymous. It lies in place. where the Swiss Guard, which took care of Louis XIV's security, once lived and operated.
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The most expensive real estate in the world lies between the two cities Versailles and Marly-le-Roi, and the security of Château Louis XIV is ensured by more than 40 surveillance cameras.
