Town Yvelines once popular with Impressionist, Croissy-sur-Seine is located about ten kilometers from Paris , not far from the town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Waterfront of the Seine, it has a city look to the popular campaign visitors. Formerly focused mainly fishing, Croissy-sur-Seine city has seen many ravages over the centuries, including the Vikings in the ninth century, or the English during the Hundred Years War.
It is in the nineteenth century it knows its heyday with the opening of taverns and the arrival of Impressionist painters who greatly appreciate the charm. The sites recalling this period are common in the Ile common. Rich of its glorious past, Croissy-sur-Seine has several sites and other historic buildings that charm visitors with their architecture and their value.
On no fewer than four sites classified or listed historic monument in Croissy-sur-Seine. Leonard and St. Martin's Chapel was built in the thirteenth century and today serves as an exhibition for the city. Castle Croissy, also registered, the date for its eighteenth century. We can now discover the museum Onesie, which tells the story of the famous tavern nineteenth century engravings, paintings or objects describing the property. Note also the home of Charity, built in the mid-nineteenth century.
Labeled "Country of the Impressionists", the common Croissy-sur-Seine has many vestiges of the golden age of painters like villa Desmarest, a small castle built in and belonged to a great patron of artists.
The house has welcomed people as famous as Bizet, Gounod or Celeste Mogador. The path of the Impressionists, marked by the city, to discover all the important places in the history of art.
