Tournan: history and sights
Served by: RER E, Transilien P.
Did you know?
Tournan-en-Brie is thought to derive from pre-Latin Turno, 'hillock', and Gaulish magos, 'market': a market on a height. Renamed Tournan-l'Union during the Revolution, it took its present name in 1923.
Anecdote
In 1544 the château d'Armainvilliers sheltered Francis I; Edmond de Rothschild bought it in 1877 and had a new residence built between 1880 and 1900.
Around Tournan
- Église Saint-Denis, 950 m away — A church rebuilt in the 1950s to replace the 12th-century one destroyed by bombing.
- Hôtel de ville (château de Garlande), 900 m away — Housed in the former Château de Garlande, Tournan's town hall is protected as a historic monument.
- Lavoir des Remparts, 1000 m away — An 18th-century public wash-house on rue Marcel-Micheau, formerly rue du Four-à-Ban.