Val-de-Marne: what to see and do
8 sites listed in the département. On the doorstep of Paris, the Val-de-Marne cultivates a varied heritage between historic châteaux such as Vincennes and green spaces popular with Parisians. This département in the midst of urban change offers little-known pockets of nature and history.
Château de Vincennes
A royal residence from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, the Château de Vincennes has kept its enclosure, medieval towers, the fourteenth-century keep and the Sainte-Chapelle with its sixteenth-century stained glass.
Château d'Ormesson-sur-Marne
Château de Grosbois
Château du Parangon
Exploradôme
MAC/VAL Musée d'art contemporain
Musée Fragonard
The Fragonard museum presents collections of casts describing the anatomy of domestic animals, collections of skeletons, spectacular lesions bearing witness to diseases now often vanished, as well as the famous écorchés (flayed figures) of Honoré Fragonard, first cousin of the painter and…
Roseraie du Val-de-Marne
It is the first Western rose garden! This conservatory of old roses houses exceptional collections: 3,177 varieties, 16,000 rose bushes.