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