5 Sights in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 5 sights are available in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

Sightseeing Tours in Saint-Germain-en-Laye

1. Fort Saint-Sébastien

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Fort Saint-Sébastien

Fort San Sebastián was a fort used to train Louis XIV's armies in poliorcetics. Located in a bend of the Seine, in the alluvial plain of Achères north of the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and about twenty kilometres north-west of Paris, this fort had a brief existence. Built in 1669 and extensively modified and enlarged in 1670, it could accommodate between 15,000 and 20,000 men and several thousand horses. After the departure of the royal troops for the war, the site was levelled in 1671 and reassigned to cultivation that same year. Its location still appears on the Plan of the forest of Laye [...] and of all that is contained in this cove of the Seine river by Nicolas de Fer dated 1705, with the inscription: "Place where the fort called Saint-Sébastien was built in 1670".

Wikipedia: Fort Saint-Sébastien (camp d'entrainement) (FR)

2. Maison du Val

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The Château du Val is a seventeenth-century French castle in classical style located in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, at the northern end of the Grande Terrasse, in the Yvelines department and the Île-de-France region. It was originally a hunting lodge built for King Henri IV, enlarged and renovated by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Louis XIV.

Wikipedia: Château du Val (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) (FR), Website, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest

3. La Seine

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The current Pont du Pecq, officially called the "Georges-Pompidou Bridge", is a road bridge that spans the Seine in the commune of Le Pecq, whose territory extends on both banks of the river. This bridge is located between the Ile de la Loge bridge and the Pecq railway viaduct.

Wikipedia: Pont du Pecq (FR)

4. Église Saint-Germain

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The Église Saint-Germain is, along with the Église Saint-Léger, one of the two parish churches of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the Yvelines department (France). At the beginning of the eighteenth century, it was called Saint-Germain-de-Paris.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (FR)

5. Musée Claude Debussy

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The Musée Claude-Debussy, or Maison Claude Debussy, is the birthplace of the composer Claude Debussy, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a western suburb of Paris, France. It contains a small museum about the composer.

Wikipedia: Musée Claude-Debussy (EN), Website

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