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Saint-Cloud (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ klu]) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, 9.6 kilometres (6.0 miles) from the centre of Paris.
Saint-Cloud, town, Hauts-de-Seine département, Île-de-France région, northern France. It is a western residential suburb of Paris, located on the left bank of the Seine River. The northern part is separated from Paris by Longchamps racecourse and by the Bois de Boulogne, the southern part by the suburb of Boulogne.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The park is located on the site of the Château de Saint-Cloud, a residence of royal and imperial families from the 16th century. After Napoleon III declared war on the Prussians, the site was occupied by a Prussian force which used the high outcropping to shell Paris.
- Parc de Saint-Cloud
- Paris
- Versailles
- Musée National de La Céramique
- Bois de Boulogne
- Musée Albert-Kahn
- Musée Marmottan Monet
- Fondation Louis Vuitton
- Jardin d’Acclimatation
- Château de Malmaison
The Château de Saint-Cloud was a royal and imperial palace, occupied by Marie Antoinette and Napoleon, but was levelled during the Franco-Prussian War. Its gardens are glorious and have the “jardin remarquable” label awarded by the Ministry of Culture. Lines of cone-shaped yews amid the balustrades show where the palace used to be, while the garden...
Get on the suburban Transilien trains, the Metro Line 10 or the T2 Tramway and you’ll be in this wonderland of world-beating museums, illustrious landmarks, shopping and fine dining before you know it. The tough bit will be deciding what to do. On this western side of city it won’t take long to get to the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe, which ...
From Saint-Cloud you can be in this fabled royal city in under 15 minutes. In the spirit of the Kings who left their marks, the Palace of Versailles is not a place for half measures. If you plan to see it all a single day is not enough. Even a whirlwind will take several hours, simply by virtue of the almost absurd dimensions of the palace, its gro...
On the other side of the Parc de Saint-Cloud is the commune of Sèvres, which is almost a byword for fine porcelain. The “manufacture” has been crafting ceramics by royal, imperial and national appointment since the reign of Louis XV in 1756. If you have an eye for decorative arts you’ll be treated to 10,000 pieces in 18 different rooms and can get ...
At 850 hectares the Bois de Boulogne is the second largest green space in Paris and for much of its past was a royal hunting ground. In the middle of the 19th century the park was landscaped with avenues and grand works like the Grand Cascade, a picturesque waterfall and the Ruisseau de Longchamp, a man-made stream. And in the decades that followed...
In the 1910s the banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create an archive of the world with tens of thousands of colour photographs and 183,000 metres of footage. This extent of this extraordinary undertaking is revealed in the museum’s galleries, while the museum’s grounds are also a big story. From 1895 Kahn had...
Monet devotees need to get down to this museum on the cusp of the Bois de Boulogne. In a dignified former hunting lodge you can see more than 300 of his works. It’s the largest single collection of his painting anywhere. Among them is the seminal Impression, Soleil Levant, which defined the Impressionist movement. Others that you’ll know straight a...
With 12 glass canopies that resemble futuristic armour, Frank Gehry’s building for this modern art museum looks like a spaceship has just landed in the Bois de Boulogne near the Jardin d’Acclimatation. The museum opened in 2014 and is dedicated to temporary exhibition for contemporary art, design and architecture, with shows for Daniel Buren and Ol...
The smallest members of the family will go nuts for this historic amusement park in the Bois de Boulogne. The Jardin d’Acclimatation was opened together by Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in 1860 and started out as a zoo. Now there’s enough going on to keep the youngest family members happy for a whole day. There are still animal enclosures, with ...
The home of Empress Joséphine from 1799 to her death in 1814, this château offers an intimate glance at her and Napoleon’s life. Joséphine and Napoleon’s opulent belongings still furnish the interiors and include fine Sèvres porcelain dinnerware, an outsized billiard table, the Emperor’s sabres and room after room of mahogany furniture. In 2017 the...
The Château de Saint-Cloud (French pronunciation: [ʃato d (ə) sɛ̃ klu]) was a château in France, built on a site overlooking the Seine at Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine, about 5 kilometres (3 miles) west of Paris. On the site of the former palace is the state-owned Parc de Saint-Cloud.
From the Hôtel d'Aulnay to the Gondi mansion, from Monsieur's renovations to Marie-Antoinette's transformations, the Château de Saint-Cloud has lived many lives, until its demise in flames during the 1870 war. Relive the milestones of its sumptuous history.
Saint-Cloud is a very wealthy suburb west of Paris. It is most known for the Domaine de Saint-Cloud, a very large park that was home to the private country residence of various French royal figures such as Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon. The suburbs of Suresnes, Sèvres and Boulogne-Billancourt are to its north, south and east respectively.
