What to see in Île-de-France

Le musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a national museum in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, in the 7th arrondissement.

Le musée du Louvre

The Louvre is the largest museum in Paris by area. Located in the heart of the city, between the right bank of the Seine and the Rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement, the building is a former royal palace.

Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

From the residence of the Kings of France to the National Archaeology Museum.

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

This castle, one of the most beautiful in Île-de-France, was built between 1656 and 1661 by Louis Le Vau for Nicolas Fouquet, then Mazarin's superintendent of finances.

Disneyland-Paris

Opened in 1992 in Marne-la-Vallée, in Seine-et-Marne, Disneyland Paris covers about 2,230 hectares, making it the largest leisure complex in Europe.

Montmartre

An artists' village perched on the highest hill in Paris, where the Sacré-Cœur basilica overlooks cobbled lanes that have stayed away from the Parisian bustle.

Palais de Fontainebleau

Used by the kings of France since the twelfth century, the hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, in the heart of a great Île-de-France forest, was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the sixteenth century by Francis I, who wanted to make it a "new Rome".

Palais et parc de Versailles

A favoured residence of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, the Palace of Versailles, embellished by several generations of architects, sculptors, ornamentalists and landscape designers, was for more than a century the model in Europe of what a royal residence should be.

Catacombes de Paris

An underground ossuary developed at the end of the eighteenth century in former quarries, where the bones of several million Parisians are carefully stacked.

Château d'Ecouen

The Château d'Écouen, twenty kilometres north of Paris, overlooking the fine expanse of the plain of the Pays de France, running towards the Chantilly forest, today houses the exceptional collections of the National Museum of the Renaissance.

Château de La Roche-Guyon

A true landmark in the landscape, the keep stands as guardian of the Château de La Roche-Guyon and the centuries of history it has seen pass by.

Château de Rambouillet

The fourteenth-century fortified castle has housed illustrious figures over the centuries who gradually transformed it into a pleasure residence acquired by Louis XVI in 1783.

Château de Thoiry

The Château de Thoiry in the Yvelines, 40 km west of Paris and 25 km north of Versailles.

Château de Vigny

This large Gothic-style castle, flanked by five round towers and surrounded by moats, was acquired on 8 November 1867 by the family of the Counts Vitali, princes of Sant'Eusebio.

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.

Disney Adventure World

Second park of the Disneyland Paris complex, opened in 2002 as Walt Disney Studios Park and renamed Disney Adventure World in March 2026.

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Located in the heart of Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is the emblematic monument of the Rmn-GP.

L'Eléphant d'Apremont

Regarded as the "Green Lung" of Île-de-France, the Fontainebleau forest offers varied landscapes and exceptional sites: the chaos and desert of Apremont, famous for its piles of rocks; the heights of La Solle, for the panorama below over the racecourse and...

La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris stands in the city of Paris, at the tip of the Île de la Cité.

Les Vaux de Cernay

Nestled in the Yvette valley, on the edge of the Rambouillet forest, the Vaux de Cernay form a rolling site where ponds, waterfalls and rocks follow one another along a stream.

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Seat of the natural history museums of France, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle is in Paris.

Provins

In Seine-et-Marne, about 80 km south-east of Paris, the fortified medieval town of Provins offers an exceptional architectural heritage.

l'opéra Garnier

A world-famous architectural masterpiece, the Palais Garnier is the thirteenth opera house in Paris since the founding of this institution by Louis XIV in 1669.

Abbaye de Royaumont

Aquaboulevard

Aquarium Sea Life

Aquarium Tropical de la Porte Dorée

The collection has about 5,000 animals and 300 species, but these figures vary continually depending on births, deaths, exchanges with other public aquariums, purchases and donations.

Aquarium de Paris - Cineaqua

The Aquarium de Paris – Cinéaqua is an aquarium under the Chaillot hill between the Trocadéro and the Seine in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement.

Arc de triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe is 2.2 kilometres north-west of Place de la Concorde, at the end of the Champs-Élysées avenue.

Atout Branches

Basilique Cathédrale de Saint Denis

The Saint-Denis basilica (universally known as the Basilica of Saint-Denis) is a Gothic-style church in the centre of Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis, 5 kilometres north of Paris.

Cathédrale d'Evry

Centre Georges Pompidou

The Georges Pompidou cultural and art centre, built on the Beaubourg plateau, aroused fierce controversy through the boldness of its architecture due to the architects Rogers, Piano and Franchini.

Centre aquatique de Bois Colombes

Chaos de la Dame Jouanne

Château Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs

Château d'Agnou

Château d'Ambleville

Château d'Ardenay

Château d'Arnouville

Château d'Asnières

Château d'Athis

Château d'Aunoy

Château d'Auvers

Château d'Etampes

Château d'Ormesson-sur-Marne

Château de Bagatelle

An eighteenth-century folly built by the Count of Artois in 1777 following a bet with Queen Marie-Antoinette. Bagatelle gardens: English-style garden, orangery, rose garden.

Château de Bandeville