A gem on the Île des Impressionnistes at Chatou!
Relish the convivial atmosphere at the Hameau Fournaise. Visit the Musée Fournaise, with its immersive experience dedicated to Renoir and to the Fournaise family, who created the riverside restaurant here, with its outdoor dancing, where Renoir, Maupassant and Caillebotte so liked to come, among other artists.
Also head to the Galerie Bessières to plunge into contemporary art, and to Sequana, to meet passionate, fascinating boat restorers. Aim to arrive in good time for lunch, to eat either at Les Rives de la Courtille or at La Maison Fournaise, where Renoir painted his masterpiece, Le Déjeuner des Canotiers. In the afternoon, you might embark on a mini-cruise aboard the boat, Chloé, or wander along the Chemin des Impressionnistes trail.
Custom route
Custom route
2 Chatou / Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
This Seine à Vélo stage transports you back from the Impressionist period to the times when boatmen and mariners ruled these parts. Do explore the Saint Germain Boucles de Seine area, plunging into French royal and imperial history, Impressionist painting and the imaginary worlds of writer Dumas and composer Debussy… The State forests of Saint-Germain and Marly-le-Roi serve as green lungs for Paris’s western suburbs. Pushing further west, tucked between the Seine and its valley’s slopes, the route leads to La Frette-sur-Seine, nicknamed ‘the pearl of the county of Val d’Oise’. The cycle path runs along its quays, lined with splendid 19th-century villas, with outdoor copies of paintings on display by the likes of Pissarro, Marquet and Daubigny, immortalizing the Seine here.
Finally, you reach Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, capital of traditional Seine navigation in these parts, offering an intense taste of the French art of living.
Finally, you reach Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, capital of traditional Seine navigation in these parts, offering an intense taste of the French art of living.