Neuilly-Plaisance: history and sights
Served by: RER A.
Did you know?
Serves a residential town nestled between the Bois de Vincennes and the Marne, whose name 'Plaisance' recalls the 19th-century bourgeois leisure residences once built there.
Anecdote
Neuilly-Plaisance owes its suffix to former country houses where wealthy Parisians once came to unwind, away from the bustle of the capital.
Around Neuilly-Plaisance
- Église Saint-Henri, 1000 m away — Land given in 1867 by the developer Poulet-Langlet, founder of Neuilly-Plaisance; in 1910 the Marne flood covered it with 1.60 m of water.
- Parc des Coteaux d'Avron, 850 m away — 31 hectares of former gypsum quarries turned into a biotope, with a fine view over the Marne valley.
- Voie Lamarque, 700 m away — A former railway turned green corridor, linking the Marne banks to the Plateau d'Avron.