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