La Varenne-Chennevières: history and sights
Served by: RER A.
Did you know?
Serves Chennevières-sur-Marne, whose 18th-century château and Marne riverbanks, long popular for guinguettes, retain a rustic charm.
Anecdote
Like many towns along the Marne, Chennevières hosted numerous guinguettes in the early 20th century, where people danced the java by the water.
Around La Varenne-Chennevières
- Musée de Saint-Maur – Villa Médicis, 1200 m away — A 15th-century residence saved from demolition in 1977 and turned into a museum in 1983; paintings, sculpture, photographs, ceramics and prints; a listed historic monument.
- Église Saint-Hilaire, 500 m away — The church of the hamlet of La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, in the heart of the La Varenne district.
- Bords de Marne et île d'Amour, 600 m away — The banks of the Marne at La Varenne, where Chennevières's Île d'Amour drew strollers.