An art book to relive the history of the French kings
Justifying the title of « mansion of centuries, veritable residence of kings”, that Napoleon the 1st had given to it, the castle of Fontainebleau offers the memory of more than 700 years of presence of French sovereigns, from Louis VII’s coronation in 1137, to the fall of the Second Empire in 1870. A grand and illustrious place, just like the crowned heads and artists of genius who shaped it and stayed there.
Other grand sites and curiosities in the neighbourhood:
– Le château de Vaux-Le-Vicomte. 32 km
– Château de Nemours and its 12th century Gothic church. 7km
– The 13th century Basilique de Larchant. 8km
– The medieval city of Moret. 10 km
– Barbizon, the village of the Impressionnists. 20 km
– The Château de Courances, Louis XIII architecture. 26 km
– The medieval city of Provins. 63 km