Gentilly: history and sights
Served by: RER B.
Did you know?
Its name comes from Gentiliacum, recorded as early as the 7th century in Saint Ouen's life of Saint Eligius, and in its present form since the late 13th century.
Anecdote
The Bièvre, once lined with tanneries and laundries, now flows covered beneath the lawns of Parc Picasso.
Around Gentilly
- Église Saint-Saturnin, 650 m away — Built in the 13th century and remodelled in the 16th, on the remains of a 7th-century abbey attributed to Saint Eligius.
- Maison de la photographie Robert-Doisneau, 350 m away — Opened in the 1990s for the 80th birthday of the photographer Robert Doisneau, whose name it bears.
- Parc Picasso, 300 m away — A park whose lawns cover the course of the Bièvre, a river now buried underground.