Courcelle-sur-Yvette: history and sights
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
Courcelle is one of the valley districts of Gif-sur-Yvette, a town that took the name of the River Yvette in the early 1930s (it was previously called Gif).
Anecdote
The painter Fernand Léger died in Gif-sur-Yvette in 1955.
Around Courcelle-sur-Yvette
- Château de l'Ermitage (hôtel de ville), 1050 m away — A château completed around 1835, now Gif-sur-Yvette's town hall.
- Château de Button, 900 m away — An 18th-century château bought by the CNRS in 1946 for 12 million francs.