The region
There's no shortage of visits to keep young and old busy
Gastronomy
La Grange de la Guesle advises you
- La Villa Marinette à Gazeran, restaurant gastronomique
- La Grange de Bory, située à côté du Haras à la Boissière école
- Le cheval rouge à Rambouillet, cuisine traditionnelle de qualité.
- L’auberge du Louvetier, spécialités poissons et crustacés.
- L’orangerie des Trois Roys à Rambouillet, restaurant gastronomique.
- La Table des Blots à Dampierre en Yvelines, une étoile au Michelin.
- Le Manège à Crèpes Rambouillet.
- Restaurant Japonais Tokyo à Rambouillet.
Nature and sensation
On foot, on horseback, in a hot-air balloon, on mountain bike, in a canoe you have multiple possibilities to discover the forest of Rambouillet and its surroundings.
Live an unforgettable experience in the wind
Maintenon Globos
Golf of the Maintenon Castle
Many riding school nearby:
- Haras de la clairière
- Centre équestre la lisière à Poigny la forêt
- Haras Nationaux des Bréviaires
Off-road driving course:
- Circuit Jean Pierre Beltoise
- Circuit de Dreux
- Quad près d'Auneau
With family
There's no shortage of walks to keep young and old busy.
Breteuil castle: the park and the castle are hosting a reenactment of a scene from a Perrault fairy tale.
Castles and culture
Visit the nearby“Royal towns” and their castles near
Chartres, Chartres the capital of the cosmetic’s valley is only 30Kms away, its famous gothic cathedral is recognised by UNESCO. As a dynamic city, you will enjoy its many cultural activities (themed tours, Chartres in lights, Archaeology and Museum of Fine Arts), leisure (The Odyssey: the largest water complex of France and its rink, discovery of Eure in canoeing)
Breteuil castle: the park and the castle are hosting a reenactment of a scene from a Perrault fairy tale. (30 minutes)
The Famous town of Versailles known throughout the world for its castle and gardens, is also 30kms away and can be easily reached by train from Gazeran or Rambouillet. Do not miss the night Fountain show from June to September and all the many events that take place in the castle’s park.
Paris
The Seine banks from the Pont de Sully at Bir-Hakeim Bridge is one of the most beautiful urban river landscapes in the world and is listed on the inventory of UNESCO World Heritage. It includes, from east to west: Notre Dame, the Louvre, Les Invalides (where you can see the tomb of Napoleon), the Alexandre III Bridge, the Grand Palais, the Quai Branly Museum, the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero.
The Louvre Museum is one of the largest of the world, with its exhibition area of 60,600 m², and its collections include about 460 000 works. These present Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, those of ancient civilizations (Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman).
The heritage of the nineteenth century is very abundant in Paris with the Arc de Triomphe, the Palais Garnier, built at the end of the Second Empire.
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the top of the Montmartre hill
Contemporary architecture in Paris is represented by the Center Pompidou, the building of the 1970s which houses the National Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of the Arab World, the National Library of France, the Opera Bastille, the Pyramid of Louvre work of the architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Quai Branly Museum of Arts and Civilization designed by Jean Nouvel, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, designed by Frank Gehry, inaugurated in 2014.
It is in the courtyard of the Louvre that begins the historic axis of Paris: it is a monumental alignment of buildings and communication routes from the heart of the city towards the west.
It begins at the statue of Louis XIV in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace, passes under the arc of the Carrousel and continues through the Tuileries Garden, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Elysées and ends at the Arc of Triumph.
From the 1960s, the prospect was extended to the west by the construction of the business district of La Défense, and in 1989 by the construction of “l’Arche de la Défense”.