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Tourism Melun
Melun and its 40 000 residents, is the prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department. Located about 50km from Paris, with its natural environment make it a pleasant town to visit.
The center, ideal for pedestrians, with its numerous markets make for a real outside shopping mall. The town of Melun has become rooted in its century, with many projects of improvement in the urban and environmental sector.
The public gardens, lively comunity and university make it to be an enthuastic and animated town.
Melun also inherits its church Saint-Apais from the 16th century, houses made of stone from the Middle Ages, the bridge of Saint-Liesne or the bell of Saint-Bathelemy.
All of this which makes Melun an essential stop while visiting the department and even the region.
Sights of Melun
- Museum of Melun
- Fontaine Saint-Jean
- The Collegiate Church of Notre Dame
- Steeple St. Barthelemy
- The Church of St. Aspais
- Former Abbey Palace
- Botanical Garden
- Remains of the Porte Saint-Jean
Museums and monuments to visit
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Musée de melunMuseum of art, history and traditions, the museum of Melun is partly set in the house of the Viscount, dating from the seventeenth. The museum received a large donation to the watercolorist and ...
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Château de Vaux le VicomteThe chateau of Vaux le Vicomte is located in the department of Seine-et-Marne in the Ile de France. It dates from the seventeenth century and was built by Fouquet. This castle served as a model for ...
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Château de FontainebleauThe Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French Renaissance and classical and medieval style royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on ...
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Église Saint-ÉtienneIts construction began in the late twelfth century at the request of Robert I of Dreux and the site took off in the thirteenth century under Robert II of Dreux. It is dedicated to Saint Etienne, the ...
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Château de CourancesCastle Courances is a French chateau located in the French town of Courances in the former province Gâtinais today Essonne and the Ile-de-France, forty-seven miles south-east Paris. The castle ...
Welcome in Melun
- Thème : Sciences and discovery
- Départ : Melun
- Durée : 5 jours
Melun, city centers of the agglomerationof Melun-Val de Seine includes more than 100.000 inhabitants. The city is also the head city of the department. With a good road network Melun is easily connected to all the cities of the south Seine-et-Loing area.
The Middle Age circuit in Seine-et-Marne
- Thème : Sciences and discovery
- Départ : Barbizon
- Durée : 5 jours
Seine-et-Marne is a wealthy historic touristic site.
Seine-et-Marne : homes of princes, kings and emperors
- Thème : Sciences and discovery
- Départ : Barbizon
- Durée : 5 jours
Royal cities, holiday towns, towns like Fontainebleau or Barbizon drawn between palaces and forest welcomed the greatest lords for the centuries.
Discover the Seine-et-Marne
- Thème : Sciences and discovery
- Départ : Fontainebleau
- Durée : 4 jours
Discover towns and cities in the Seine-et-Marne department.