Saint Remy les Chevreuse

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse  is located in  the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region .

From Paris Chatelets Les Halles is 1h bij RER B untill the eind stop, Saint Remy les  Chevreuse.

Wash house.

Wash house.

Chevreuse’s romantic walk.

 

This charming promenade is the last remaining evidence of the goatskin tanneries which, like the mills, once stood on the left bank of the Yvette.

There are 22 different small bridges (formerly called “planches” or “ponceaux”) over the Yvette canal.

South entrance

Château de la Madeleine.

The castle is builded between 1020 and 1090.

 

 

 

 

The tower of the guards.

The tower.

Church Saint-Rémi, dating from the 12th century.

 Statue of saint Joseph.

Paintings by Charles de Coubertin.

 

Each painting has a palm tree at its centre, with the inscription ‘Miserer pro nobis’ or ‘Ora pro nobis’, ‘pray for us’.

The choir

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