Vigneux-sur-Seine: history and sights
Served by: RER D.
Did you know?
Named after Vigneux-sur-Seine, a Seine-side town whose economy was built on sand extraction; Port-Courcel keeps its memory.
Anecdote
In 1908 the strike of the sand-quarry workers of Draveil and Vigneux, harshly repressed, left strikers dead.
Around Vigneux-sur-Seine
- Port-Courcel, 1150 m away — A former Seine port linked to the sand trade.
- Bords de Seine, 1800 m away — The Seine banks, where sand from the town's quarries was loaded.