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L'Essonne Initially agricultural (cereal) with Beauce and Brie,
this region has some forests : Dourdan, Milly, Sénart, Verrière. |
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| Les Hauts-de-Seine With its wooded areas : Meudon, Fausse-Reposes, Malmaison-Bois-Préau, wood of Verrière, Saint-Cloud park, the department includes differents famous sites. You ought to visit the castle of La Malmaison (Napoléon and Joséphine souvenirs), the stud farm of Jardy, Marante island (Colombes), Saint-Germain island (Issy-les-Moulineaux). |
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| La Seine-et-Marne Its castles were used as sceneries in many movies like Fontainebleau, or Vaux-le-Vicomte (the castle of Nicolas Fouquet. Chancellor of the Exchequer under the reign of King Louis XIV, he is considered as one of the possible "Mask of Iron").Other site are not to be missed as the Collegiales of Champeaux, Dammartin-en-Goële, the ramparts and the dungeon of Provins, the castle of Champs (1715-1720 built by Bullet de Chambain). To see : son et lumière of Moret-sur-Loing. |
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| La Seine-Saint-Denis You should absolutly visit the Saint-Denis basilica and its kings of France’s crypt (25 kings et 17 queens are buried there). |
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| Le Val-de-Marne In the valley of the Seine and Marne Rivers, many promenades on riverside are possible.A curiosity you should discover is the Baltard metallic house (from the ancient central food market of Paris) at Nogent-sur-Marne |
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 Castle of Esclimont
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Le Val-d'Oise Ancient domain of Montmorency family, the plain of France is, with Vexin, an agricultural earth. This departement is very wooded with forests of Ecouen, Cormeilles, Boissy.Here, you have many site to discover as the abbeys of Royaumont (13th century) and Maubusson. Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh and his brother are buried here and you can visit the museum of Impressionnism) ; the national museum of Renaissance period (Castle of Écouen). The French Vexin is a particularly picturesque region with Vetheuil, Villarceaux (and its magnificient property), La Roche Guyon which castle was used by Rommel as headquarters during the last war as well as the typical watermill of Fourges-sur-l'Epte. |
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 Castle of Villiers-le-Mahieu |
Les Yvelines We do not have to present the castle of Versailles ; it is the one of the more visited of France if it were of the world.To see also among the 365 listed sites of French patrimony (172 only in the valley of Chevreuse) : the abbey of Port-Royal, the Collegiales of Mantes-la-Jolie (12th - 13th centuries) and Poissy, the castles of Rambouillet, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (National museum of Antiquity), Maisons-Laffitte (built in 1642-1650 by Mansart), Neuville (at Gambais). Do not miss the wildlife park of Thoiry where animals live in semi-liberty. |
