20 daytrips
| Things to see and do Click on photos to enlarge |
Destination | Associated with |
|---|---|---|
| Riverside restaurants | ||
Riverside walk/restaurant, music, dancing |
Villeneuve Triage | The guinguette tradition |
| Island restaurant, music, dancing |
Ile du Martin-Pêcheur
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The guinguette tradition |
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Riverside walks, islands, restaurant
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Créteil
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Victor Hugo |
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Sisley’s house, riverside walk/cafés, boat trip,
medieval gateways, church, Barley Sugar Museum, market |
Moret-sur-Loing | Alfred Sisley, Georges Clemenceau |
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Barge Museum, island restaurant,
castle keep, church, park, riverside walk, ferry
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Conflans-Ste Honorine | River barges |
| Châteaux | ||
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Château, park, Victorian chocolate factory, river walk
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Champs-sur-Marne
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Madame de Pompadour,
Menier chocolate |
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Château, park, canals, English landscape garden
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Rambouillet |
Marie Antoinette, Napoleon,
De Gaulle |
| Châteaux/Museums | ||
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Château/Condé Museum, Horse Museum, park, boat trip
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Chantilly
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Horse racing, the Princes of Condé, Vatel |
Château/Museum of the Renaissance, concerts, forest walk |
Ecouen
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The Renaissance
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Château/Museum of National Antiquities,
Maurice Denis’ house/museum and garden, market |
St Germain-en-Laye |
Le Nôtre, Madame de Montespan, Debussy,
Maurice Denis and the Nabis painters |
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Château/Museum of the Ile de France, park, waterfall, restaurant,Chateaubriand’s house/museum and garden
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Sceaux | Colbert, Le Nôtre, Chateaubriand |
| Writers’ and artists’ houses | ||
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Ravel’s house/museum, park of château de Groussay,
château ruins, ramparts, church
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Montfort-l’Amaury |
Simon de Montfort, Victor Hugo,
Maurice Ravel |
| Rousseau’s house/museum, church, market | Montmorency | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Zola’s house/museum, Villa Savoye, restaurant,
Toy Museum, church, park, riverside walk, swimming  |
Poissy
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St Louis, Le Corbusier,
Emile Zola |
| Old buildings/towns | ||
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Castle ruins, boat trip, canal walk, churches, museums, restaurant
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La Ferté-Milon
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Leonardo da Vinci, Racine,
La Fontaine |
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Gothic church, moats, boat trip, medieval towers, walk
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Crécy-la-Chapelle
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Camille Corot
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Abbey, concerts, tea-room, country walk
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Royaumont
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St Louis
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| Ramparts, Tour César, churches, underground passages, tournaments, canal walk  |
Provins
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The Middle Ages
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Medieval gateway, church, restaurants, country walk
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Luzarches
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Erik Satie
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Cathedral, château ruins, churches, rampart walk, Roman arena
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Senlis
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The first French kings
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‘An Hour From Paris’ Etching and lithograph in five colours, by Virginia Powell. Edition of 12.
Copyright Virginia Powell, www.virginiapowell.com