Things to see and do Essonne

The union organizes a visit of the apiary and miellerie of the castle of Soucy, Bel Air and Fontenay les Briis every 1 st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 14 am to 18 pm between the beginning of March and end of November. Groups can make an appointment.

It was inaccessible for many months, but the Caillebotte House offered a nice return last June. This property, former home of the painter Gustave Caillebotte, is composed of a large park, a vegetable garden, a farm, a watercourse and a beautiful building of the fifteenth century. It was the latter who was closed for over a year to carry out conservation work. Today, we can revisit its corridors to come to admire temporary exhibitions, discover the history of the places or that of the Caillebotte family. The property offers guided tours but if you want to be in total autonomy, there is also a mobile application.

Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon offers a wide range of horse-related tourist activities. The CDTE Essonne, Comité Départemental de Tourisme Equestre, is based in the town. It offers TREC competitions, PTV challenges and organizes training courses for riders. The PTV challenge, which takes place in winter, includes several events in different towns in Essonne. The CDTE also offers rides, rallies and other equestrian activities. The Essonne riders' gathering is held every year at EVADEC in Boutigny-sur-Essonne over the Whitsun weekend. Last but not least, the CDTE offers training courses for signallers, judges and ringmasters.

Évry-Courcouronnes, located in the Essonne department, has a tourist information center. Visitors will be greeted with competence and a smile by the tourist office staff.

Unmissable, because located on the heights that are visible south of Saulx-les-Chartreux, the departmental forest of the rock has no less than 98 hectares. Gradually acquired since the late 1970s by local authorities and the National Forestry Office, this is a great place to walk, and allows you to discover an abundant flora: oaks, beeches, chestnut trees, robinia. On the slopes of what everyone here calls the "plateau", you will find the sands of Fontainebleau, giving an original side to the whole.

At the start of the Ulis, the 12 kilometers that await you with sports pleasure and heritage discovery. And for the reason: your first step is only the Domaine Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard! Classified as a historic monument, it is open to visit, so why not take advantage of your walk to stop there? If its th century castle is the «nail of the show», don't miss the park, its vegetable garden and its pigeon house. Your journey will then lead you to the domain of Janvry, another architectural pearl of the XVII - unfortunately it does not visit. Not far away, stop before "the Song", another remains: Gérard Philippe and Coco Chanel stayed there. Then go to the Hameau hamlet. Then, before reaching Gometz-la-Ville, at the level of the lift station, go up the path along the castle park: you will then find the road that will bring you back to the right port.

Tariff: free; visit of the Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard area: 8 € (free for people under 8), open from 15 March to 15 November, every Sunday and holidays from 14 am to 18 pm, except during the holidays.

Distance: 12 km.

Duration: 2 h.

Difficulty: .

Markup: balisage of the Community of communes of the Country of Intermunicipality (7 terminals present at each intersection); part of the route takes the GR of the Hurepoix (yellow-red).

On foot, by bike, in rollerskates or even in skateboard, this Voie verte connecting Paris to Massy is led to all the activities! Your course starts on the Catalunya Square, close to the Montparnasse train station. Quickly, you reach the cycle track of the rue Vercingétorix, which you will follow on his 3 kilometers. You here is thus in Malakoff; from there, the marking of green Casting, you follow will not be able to lose you. The itinerary holds some hard rises for you, but in pledge of reward, you will appreciate in particular the pleasant points of view of Fontenay-aux-Roses and the following towns.

Price: free.

Distance: 15 km away.

Difficulty: quite easy.

At the start of the Ferme farm, in Jouy-en-Josas, this hiking loop invites you to discover through its 16 teaching panels the bottom of the cities agriculture. The Saclay Plateau guarantees you a circuit without gaps, easy to access for the whole family. you can even ride it by bike! On the road, don't miss the Ferme farm, located on the site of a former Gallo-Roman villa.

Tariff: free.

Distance: 6 km.

Duration: 1 p. m.

Difficulty: .

As follows: to prepare your trip, download the brochure at www.scientipole.fr.

This sculpture over 22 metres high and made up of 350 tons of steel was built in the forest by Jean Tinguely and his artists from 1969. It is a huge head with one eye and a mouth from which water flows. Inside the sculpture you can discover works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Caesar, Jean-Pierre Raynaud and many other artists.

To know all the 69 municipalities that make up the park on the two departments of Essonne and Seine-et-Marne. Important: the charter available on the website, a true passport for a better understanding and preservation of the park. Every year, on the third Sunday in September, the park organizes the Musical Adventure, a succession of small concerts in the Carrière-sur-Ecole sandstone quarry, as well as an artistic hike in June, punctuated by interventions by actors.

Logic Way welcomes you all year round and proposes you to move to the Capital on a Segway®, a truly surprising, fun and easy-to-use mobility device. A few minutes are enough to understand and understand the operation. 
 Just look forward to move forward and look backward to slow down. No accelerator or brake, it prolongs the body and obeys it. To turn, just give a slight tilt at the handlebars. Logic Way only uses Gyropodes i 2 last generation. From 7 people, take advantage of a discount for all participants.

Small morning. The sky is blue, but the mists stretch over the green spaces and curling around the buildings. We are in Evry-sur-Seine, a city that has attracted important scientific research institutions in aeronautics, aeronautics and medical research. Moreover, we are just steps from Génopole in Evry, the first French biotechnology campus. The French association against the myopathies is located just off the metro, at the end of a small walkway paved with white slabs that winds between the buildings and the buildings of the research companies. This is a visit not to be missed if you ask questions about genetics and diseases that can be traced to a mistake in the genome map, commonly called, orphan diseases. Of the 6 000 to 8 000 rare diseases, including 200 neuromuscular diseases, 80% are of genetic origin. 30 million people are affected in Europe, including 3 million in France (about 5% of the French population - of the 65 million). In addition, this visit is only offered once a year on the occasion of the "Discover Essonne Companies" operation. Adjacent to the lobby, an exhibition gallery invites the visitor to discover the history of the AFM through explanatory panels rich in photos and texts. The guide makes us first a presentation of the company and its missions. Created in 1958 and recognized as a public utility since 1976, the mission of the AFM is to find a therapeutic solution to neuromuscular diseases, through research and especially research into gene therapies. In the short term, the MFA aims to improve the daily lives of patients by promoting better access to care and better social accompaniment. In 2008, EUR 35,5 million was spent on aid activities for sick and families by the AFM. The visit offers a route from the DNA bank and its collection, culture, mining and storage rooms. Everything is explained and the visitor comes out of the premises more fully than before entering.

Château du Saussay in Ballancourt, 45 km south of Paris, is a rare ensemble of two 18th-century châteaux. Built on the ruins of a feudal castle, it faces the entrance to a romantic park surrounded by water. Inside, the reception rooms evoke the lives of the illustrious figures who have lived in the château. Listed on the Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques since 1951, the château is open to visitors. It is also possible to organize professional film shoots. However, receptions are not accepted.