Villiers-Montbarbin: history and sights
Served by: Transilien P.
Did you know?
Villiers comes from the Latin villaris: the outbuildings of a Gallo-Roman villa (workers' housing, farm buildings), recorded in 1082. The Montbarbin stop lies in neighbouring Crécy-la-Chapelle, on the Villiers boundary.
Anecdote
Vercors lived in Villiers-sur-Morin during the war; his family home is the setting of his Resistance novella Le Silence de la mer (1942).
Around Villiers-Montbarbin
- Église Saint-Rémi, 600 m away — The church of Villiers-sur-Morin, depicted in 1928 by the Japanese painter Yuzo Saeki.
- Parc du château des Dames de Chelles, 700 m away — A 19th-century pleasure garden in Villiers-sur-Morin.