Commune of over 5,000 inhabitants, in Seine-et-Marne, in the Ile-de-France, Fontenay-Trésigny takes place twenty kilometers from Melun and forty kilometers from Paris and its monuments. It lies at the heart of the Brie, near Provins, Rozay-en-Brie and Crèvecœur-en-Brie.
Inhabited since prehistoric times, the territory of Fontenay-Trésigny has developed over the centuries, gradually taking the face that it is today, despite the many looting and suffered other fires in the Middle Ages. Ideally located for exploring the Paris region and the beauties of Paris, the city seduces visitors with its rich architectural and historical heritage, but also its green landscapes.
Built in the first half of the seventeenth century, the castle of the Duke of Epernon, also called Sources castle was remodeled many times over the centuries, to make the appearance we see today and has earned its ranking Historical Monument. Visitors can still enjoy the gardens and the old farmhouse landscaped leisure park labeled Remarkable Garden.
The Church of St. Martin dates from the late fourteenth century. Listed building, it reveals a beautiful furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the interior. Passing by the building, difficult to resist the wealth of works of art, as the paneling of the seventeenth century, St. Jerome on wood panel of the sixteenth century, the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist or the statue of the Virgin of the thirteenth century.
Former appointments hunting under the Capetians, Vivier the royal castle is the subject of a classification as historical building. Built in the late thirteenth century, it still reveals its ruins in the heart of a charming flower garden labeled Remarkable Garden. You can admire the tower, a turret staircase, three circular towers and chapel walls.
Other manors and castles are also taking place on the territory of the municipality of Fontenay-Trésigny like castle Plumasserie transformed into a guest house, Castle Ecoublay with his eighteen-hectare park dedicated to business seminars yet the Chaubuisson mansion turned into Relais & Châteaux.
Walking through the city, you can also discover a door of the sixteenth century, the only remains of the old ramparts, the bathhouse that now house the museum Hippolyte Henry or many old farms.
