Le Parc de Saint-Maur: history and sights
Served by: RER A.
Did you know?
A small residential station in the heart of the Marne loop, named after the bourgeois parks and gardens that once lined the riverbanks, amid Belle Époque villas and river branches.
Anecdote
The area still has several disused river branches and islands on the Marne, remnants of a riverscape once popular with Parisian boating enthusiasts in the early 20th century.
Around Le Parc de Saint-Maur
- Église Saint-François-de-Sales, 1450 m away — A church whose luminosity strikes visitors as soon as they enter.
- Parc de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maur, 1200 m away — Nearly 2 hectares around the remains of the Merovingian-era Benedictine abbey, with the Tour Rabelais and a menhir.
- Musée de Saint-Maur – Villa Médicis, 750 m away — A 15th-century residence saved from demolition in 1977 and turned into a museum in 1983; paintings, sculpture, photographs, ceramics and prints.