Fontaine-le-Port: history and sights
Served by: Transilien R.
Did you know?
Fontaine-le-Port is attested around 1145 as 'Ecclesia de Fontanis'; the monks of Barbeau abbey collected tolls there from boats on the Seine.
Anecdote
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman owned two châteaux in the Massoury park at Fontaine-le-Port.
Around Fontaine-le-Port
- Église Saint-Martin, 600 m away — A church rebuilt in the early 16th century, whose 25-metre bell tower dates from the 13th; its panels of Saint Martin and Saint Vincent are said to come from Barbeau abbey.
- Site de l'abbaye de Barbeau, 1500 m away — The site of the royal Cistercian abbey founded by Louis VII, where the king was buried in 1180; the abbey was destroyed in 1793.