Many people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Lunéville every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the region.

Count Folmar had a castrum built there to control the crossing of the Vezouze River on the salt route, which went from Vic-sur-Seille to Deneuvre and Raon-l'Étape, leading to Sélestat and Alsace.

However, this power would be short-lived, as in 1243, the lordship of Lunéville came under the domain of Duke Mathieu II of Lorraine, who became the owner of the castle.

It was a quadrangular building with corner towers, surrounded on three sides by a water-filled moat supplied by the river that flowed along the northern flank.

Some took a particular interest in it and carried out important works, such as Duke Raoul, who founded a castle chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Anthony of Padua in 1343.

It was rebuilt as “the Versailles of Lorraine” by Duke Léopold from 1703 to 1723, from designs of Pierre Bourdict and Nicolas Dorbay and then of the architect Germain Boffrand, whose masterwork it became.

Lunéville was listed as a Monument historique in 1901 and by successive ordinances;[2] its princely apartments are looked after by the Ministry of Defence while the structure is the responsibility of the Conseil départemental de Meurthe-et-Moselle.

On the night of 2 to 3 January 2003, a fire broke out that ravaged the château to the extent that the plaster vault of the chapelle royale collapsed.

[3] Since only the southern half of the palace was completed, most of the important state rooms and royal apartments were located on this side towards the garden.

[8] Acquisitions have been ongoing to bring back lost items such as mirrors, paintings, furniture and other original works of art.

After the end of Lunéville as a court these statues were acquired by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in 1766 and installed at Schwetzingen Palace.

The remaining statues out of stone that are located in the garden include Apollon foulant un dragon, Diane, Flore and La Nuit.

The upper floor was a belvedere lookout point where you could see the "bas bosquets", also called nouveaux bousquets,[16] created under Stanislaus, in between the river Vezouze and the canal.