Fontenay-sous-Bois: history and sights
Served by: RER A.
Did you know?
A wooded town on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes, whose Val de Fontenay park and former hillside quarries recall a rich rural past before the area was built up.
Anecdote
Fontenay-sous-Bois still has a rare urban vineyard, planted on the slopes that once produced wine for Paris before the 19th-century phylloxera epidemic.
Around Fontenay-sous-Bois
- Église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 400 m away — Built under Francis I (bells christened in 1534) on the site of a modest chapel recorded as early as 982; listed as a historic monument.
- Pavillon Baltard (Nogent-sur-Marne), 1800 m away — The last surviving pavilion of Paris's Les Halles designed by Victor Baltard, rebuilt in Nogent in 1976 and listed as a historic monument in 1982.
- Château de Vincennes, 2800 m away — A royal fortress whose 52-metre keep is the tallest medieval keep in Europe.