Créteil-Pompadour: history and sights
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
Named after the Pompadour crossroads and plain, a vast market-gardening plain that from 1860 was one of the main vegetable-growing centres supplying Paris.
Anecdote
The Choux de Créteil, designed by Gérard Grandval from 1969 to 1974, recall by their name the market-gardening plain they replaced.
Around Créteil-Pompadour
- Lac de Créteil et île de loisirs, 800 m away — A former gypsum and gravel quarry turned into a leisure lake of some sixty hectares.
- Les Choux de Créteil, 1550 m away — A housing complex by Gérard Grandval (1969–1974) with rounded balconies, awarded the '20th-century heritage' label.
- Église Saint-Christophe, 1400 m away — A church with a fortified 11th-century bell tower, with Romanesque and Gothic elements.