Hearst Castle

Saturday, December 23, we had a tour at the Hearst Castle. You can read some history on these photos below.

These pictures were taken in our tour bus. It was a five mile trip to Hearst Castle.

There's the Castle! I couldn't get a good picture of it, so next time I will :)

Robert by Casa Del Sol. Casa Del Sol is an 18-room guesthouse facing the majestic Pacific Coastline.

The Neptune Pool. This below picture was taken out of Hearst Castle, The Official Pictorial Guide.

This picture was taken by Lorie.

The courtyard behind me.

You can see the ocean from the view of this courtyard.

The two statues of Sekhmet, the lion-faced Egyptian goddess of war and battle, are the oldest works of art at San Simeon, dating from 1350 - 1200 B.C. Hearst acquired the pieces in 1935.

Casa Grande is the main house. We got to see the five main rooms on the ground floor. Assembly Room which is the largest of the four sitting rooms and once a gathering place for Hearst's guests, the Refectory which is the single dining room at Hearst Castle, the Morning Room which is a magnificent sitting room filled with Spanish antiques and Flemish tapestries, the Billiard Room which is a game room featuring two 1920's billiard tables and a Gothic "millle fleurs" tapestry, and the Theater which is the largest room in Casa Grande. A lot of our pictures didn't turn out because if you were going to take a picture you need to have your flash off.

The below pictures was the Refectory room.

This was the Morning Room.

The Roman Pool. The pool and surrounding room, which were built from 1927-1934, can be compared to an ancient Roman bath. Every surface of the pool, walls, and ceiling are a mosaic of hammered gold and delicate Venetian glass tiles.

After the tour and the National Geographic companion movie Hearst Castle Building the Dream. We got something to eat and started our way back to Folsom. The drive was about 5 hours long. Along the way I spotted this and took a picture of it.