Manche, Normandy
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
A maritime city at the tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, home to La Cité de la Mer, a working harbour and dramatic nearby coastline.
- Travel time
- ~3h 10m from Paris
- Transport
- Direct train
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Eure, Normandy
Giverny
The Normandy village where Claude Monet lived from 1883 to 1926 — his pink house, the Clos Normand flower garden and the water-lily pond, plus an Impressionism museum, 45-50 minutes by train from Paris Saint-Lazare.
- Travel time
- ~1h 15m from Paris
- Transport
- Direct train
Calvados, Normandy
Honfleur
A historic Norman harbour of slate-fronted houses, artists’ heritage, wooden architecture and seafood restaurants around the Vieux Bassin.
- Travel time
- ~2h 10m from Paris
- Transport
- Car
Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Moret-sur-Loing
A fortified medieval town on the Loing at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, painted repeatedly by Alfred Sisley and home to a barley sugar made by nuns since 1638.
- Travel time
- ~50 min from Paris
- Transport
- Direct train
Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Barbizon
The village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest where Rousseau, Millet and Corot invented painting outdoors — one street of studios and galleries, and a museum inside the painters' old inn.
- Travel time
- ~1h 20m from Paris
- Transport
- Train, then bus
Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire
Chartres
A UNESCO-listed Gothic cathedral with world-famous stained glass, a walkable medieval old town and riverside lanes — about an hour by direct train from Paris Montparnasse.
- Travel time
- ~1h 15m from Paris
- Transport
- Direct train
Oise, Hauts-de-France
Senlis
A royal and medieval town 45 km north of Paris, with an early Gothic cathedral, Gallo-Roman walls, cobbled streets used constantly as film sets, and Chantilly next door.
- Travel time
- ~1h 10m from Paris
- Transport
- Train, then bus
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