Tourism in Yvelines

The tourism in Yvelines is strongly marked by the presence of the Château of Versailles, which is one of principal tourist attractions of France.

Yvelines profit from the proximity from Paris, which is the city most visited in the world and induces an important surge foreign tourists, and at the same time the center from the considerable agglomeration who finds in this department, richest in forests of Ile-de-France, one of its green lungs.

Here a list of the places and remarkable curiosities of Yvelines.

Principal points of interest

Castles

Castle of Versailles (2 853.976 screws. in 2003)
Castle of Béhoust
Castle of Boulémont
Castle of Breteuil (108 000 screws. in 2003)
Castle of Dampierre
Castle of Houses-Lafitte (13 479 screws. in 2002)
Castle of Rambouillet (16 514 screws. in 2003)
Castle of the Rosny-on-Seine
Castle of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer (61 637 screws. in 2003)
Castle of Thoiry
Battery of Herdsmen to Guyancourt.

Museums

National center of the print and printed art (Chatou)
Collection of old religious art (Church of Spit, Prunay-in-Yvelines)
Fondation of contemporary art Daniel and Florence Guerlain (Mesnuls)
Musée of the National antiquities (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer) (61 637 screws. in 2003)
Museum of Arts and History of Poissy (Poissy)
Museum of arts and traditions (Saint-Arnoult-in-Yvelines)
Museum of shipping (Conflans-Holy-Honorine) (15 423 screws. in 2003)
Musée of fit with body (Versailles)
Musée of the castle of Sully (the Rosny-on-Seine)
Musée of the Racehorse (Houses-Laffitte)
Musée of the collections of the automobile adventure (Poissy)
departmental Musée Maurice Denis “the Priory” (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer) (27 627 screws. in 2003)
Museum of Both Trianons (Versailles)
Museum Duhamel (Mantes-the-Pretty)
Museum of the military costume (Holy-Mesme)
Museum of the house Furnace (Island of the impressionists, Chatou)
Museum of the general Leclerc de Hautecloque (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer).
Museum of the snap fastener (the Croissy-on-Seine)
Museum of the Hospital (Mantes-the-Pretty)
international Museum of na5ive art (Vicq)
Museum of the toy (Poissy) (20 676 screws. in 2003)
Museum Lambinet (Versailles)
Museum of the locomotion and attachment of the Ile de France (Coignières)
Museum of the military college (Saint-Cyr-the School)
Museum Maximilien Luce (Mantes-the-Pretty)
Museum of the sheep (Rambouillet)
National museum of the Barns of Port-Royal (Magny-the-Hamlets)
Museum of the " Great Hours of Parlement" (Versailles) (73 148 screws. in 2003)
Museum walk, park of Marly “the royal grid” (Marly-the-King - Louveciennes)
Museum of the Room of the Play of palm (Versailles)
Museum of the fabric of Jouy (Jouy-in-Josas) (14 265 screws. in 2003)
Osmothèque, memory of the perfumes (Versailles)
Museum Rambolitrain (Rambouillet)
Museum of the bicycle (Favrieux)
Museum Véra (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer)
Museum Victor Aubert (Maule)
Museum of the city (Montigny-le-Bretonneux)
Museum of the town of Saint-Quentin in Yvelines (Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines)

Houses of artists, writers and characters famous

House Andre Derain with Chambourcy
House of Elsa Triplet - Louis Aragon with Saint-Arnoult-in-Yvelines
House of Emile Zola with Médan
House of Jean Monnet to Bazoches-on-Guyonne (11 015 screws. in 2003)
historical House of Leon and Jeanne Blum with Jouy-in-Josas
House-museum Maurice Ravel with Montfort-l' Amaury
Musée Claude Debussy with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer
Musée Ivan Tourgueniev with Bougival
Maison of Sisley (Marly-the-King)
Château of Assembles-Cristo, remains of Alexandre Dumas with the Port-Marly

See also historical Road of the houses of writers

Parks and gardens

See List of the parks and gardens of Yvelines

Arboretum de Chèvreloup (Rocquencourt) (14 436 screws. in 2003)
Field of Marly (Marly-the-King)
miniature France (Élancourt)
Park of Versailles
Park with Stars of the observatory (Triel-sur-Seine)
animalist Park of Thoiry (Thoiry) (386 000 screws. in 2003)
Park Balby (Versailles)
Pot of the king (Versailles)
zoological Reserve of Savage (Wild Castle, Émancé)
Space Rambouillet (Rambouillet)
Part of water of Swiss the (Versailles)
Park of the Sources of the Beaver to Guyancourt

Ponds and water levels

Part of water of Swiss the with Versailles
Pond of Saint-Quentin to Trap doors
Ponds of the Mine to Guyancourt
Ponds of Holland on the communes of the Perray-in-Yvelines and the Breviaries

Natural parks

Regional natural park of the High-Valley of Chevreuse.
Regional natural park of French Vexin

Others

Villa Savoye (Poissy) (23 972 screws. in 2003)

Capacity of lodging

Yvelines count 3538 establishments of hotel trade and restoration employing 17.176 worker (figures 2004).

Notes, sources and references

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