La Celle-Saint-Cloud: history and sights
Served by: Transilien L.
Did you know?
In 1978 La Celle-Saint-Cloud bought the Villa Viardot and Turgenev's dacha, in Bougival, to save them from ruin.
Anecdote
The European Ivan Turgenev Museum, housed in the writer's dacha, opened on 3 September 1983, the centenary of his death.
Around La Celle-Saint-Cloud
- Datcha-musée Ivan Tourguéniev, 1800 m away — The Swiss-Russian chalet where the writer lived, now a museum and a 'Maison des Illustres' since 2023.
- Villa Viardot, 2200 m away — A neoclassical villa of 1830 where the singer Pauline Viardot lived, next to the dacha.