Nemours-Saint-Pierre: history and sights
Served by: Transilien R.
Did you know?
The station is in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, separated from Nemours by the Loing canal, which the Duke of Orléans had dug from 1719.
Anecdote
Nemours' centre is an island between the Loing and its canal, dominated by an almost intact 12th-century château.
Around Nemours-Saint-Pierre
- Château-musée de Nemours, 500 m away — A 12th-century town château on the left bank of the Loing, one of the few in the Île-de-France region to survive almost intact.
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 400 m away — A church whose tower dates from the 12th century, most of it from the 16th, with a very slender spire.
- Musée départemental de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France, 1800 m away — Opened in 1981, it shows 3,400 objects from a collection of over two million.