Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Yvelines

Revival style castle
78560 Le Port-Marly

Monte Cristo Castle, built in the 19th century in Port-Marly, Île-de-France, is a neo-Renaissance residence surrounded by an English park, built by Alexandre Dumas to write and receive.

Classic style castle
78600 Maisons-Laffitte

The Château de Maisons-Laffitte, a 17th century masterpiece in Île-de-France, is a jewel of French classical architecture, attributed to François Mansart, located in Maisons-Laffitte in the Yvelines.

Castle
78460 Chevreuse

The Château de la Madeleine, castle of the 11th, 14th and 15th centuries, dominates the Chevreuse valley (Yvelines). In good condition, it now houses the seat of the regional natural park.

Castle
78650 Beynes

Beynes Castle, located in the Yvelines in Île-de-France, is an ancient medieval castle dating back to the 11th and 15th centuries, today in ruins but partially preserved, classified as a historical monument since 2014.

Classic style church
78000 Versailles

The Saint-Louis Cathedral of Versailles, an 18th-century rock masterpiece, was built under Louis XV by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart of Sagonne. Located in Île-de-France, it became a cathedral in 1802 and combines innovative architecture and royal history.

Bridge
78300 Carrières-sous-Poissy

The old bridge of Poissy, built from the 13th century and rebuilt until the 16th century, was a 400-metre arched bridge crossing the Seine between Poissy and Quartiers-sub-Poissy (Yvelines). Strategic for trade and conflict, it was destroyed in 1944.

Gothic Church
78720 Cernay-la-Ville

The Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey of the 12th-17th centuries in Cernay-la-Ville (Yvelines), is a medieval jewel listed as a historical monument, combining Gothic ruins and royal history in Île-de-France.

Abbey
78114 Magny-les-Hameaux

The Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs, founded in the 13th century at Magny-les-Hameaux in Île-de-France, was a Cistercian female monastery marked by Catholic reform and Jansenism, before its destruction in 1710 on royal order.