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|  | It's next door to Paris but it feels like a different world. Lounge around on the sandbank, scramble over rocks, wander through sandstone villages or a château. It's all possible in Fontainebleau.
A spot of green
Everywhere, the forest invites you to tread its paths, breathe in its odors, pick a few flowers. Dotted here and there with strange-shaped boulders, the scenery has an other-worldly quality. Perfect for dreamers !
Creative territory
You're in the land of artists! Jean Cocteau decorated the chapel at Milly-la-Forêt. Barbizon was where the landscape artist movement was born. The Auberge Ganne has preserved relics of their presence: have fun looking for their signatures on the furniture and walls. |
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| | Eye of the Cyclops
As you round a bend in the path, a strange creature more than 20m high rears its fearful steel head: it is the "Cyclops" by the sculptor Jean Tinguely. Take the time to climb it and enjoy a little rest at the top.
On the vertical
Catherine Destivelle chose the boulders at Fontainebleau to train on. Like her, attack the one called Dame Jouanne bare-handed. But at your own pace.
Protected forest
Back in 1836, environmental activists George Sand, Victor Hugo, the Barbizon painters and the naturalists succeeded in getting a ban on cutting down old stands of trees. Resting in the shade of trees over a century old is pure happiness! |
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