A village nestled in its meander in the Seine
Stretching from the Seine up the valley’s northern slope, the village of La Frette-sur-Seine has kept its character all along its three kilometres of quays, making it an exceptional spot. It has long been, and remains, a welcoming place for artists. The original settlement arose where two short ‘valleuses’ or ‘thalwegs’ join the great river. The land here slopes up to a plateau looking across to Saint-Germain-en-Laye Forest.
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.