Fontainebleau

Château de Fontainebleau was one of the favourite castles of the Kings of France and has been continuously inhabited by the royal family through seven centuries. This post will guide you through the apartments and halls but in a different way than in the Versailles post: since I have not been able to find a map of exactly where which apartment is, I think it is better to go through them without the reference on the map. But you should not be cheated of a floor plan nonetheless!

Plan of the château from 1682 which means the plan was created during Louis XIV

The entrance to the palace

View from the gardens

This should give you a pretty good idea of how big this palace really is!

Welcome to Fontainebleau:

The Main Apartments:

The Grand Apartments of the Sovereigns

The Renaissance Rooms

The Petits Apartments

Two Boudoirs of Marie Antoinette

The Papal Apartments

Apartment des Chasses

Apartments of Madame de Maintenon

Guest Apartments (during Napoleon III)

Theatre of Napoleon III

The Galleries (the Château has surprisingly many):

The Gallery of Francis I

Galerie de Diane 

Galerie des Cerfs

Gallery of the Columns

The Chapels (there are three!):

The Chapel of the Trinity

The Chapelle basse Saint-Saturnin

The Chapelle haute Saint-Saturnin

Courtyards:

The Cour de la Fontaine

The Cour Ovale

The Cour d'Honneur

The Cour des Offices

Gardens:

Jardin de Diane

Grand Parterre

The Jardin Anglais

The Grotte des Pins

The Pavillion de l'Étang

The Park