Sceaux

commune in Hauts-de-Seine, France

Sceaux is a wealthy suburb located about 10 km to the south of the centre of Paris. It is mostly known for the Château and Parc de Sceaux, designed by André Le Nôtre who was also responsible for designing the gardens of the Versailles Palace. For this reason it feels like visiting a miniature version of Versailles, but without the swarms of tourists.

Parc de Sceaux
Chateau de Sceaux
Grand canal, Parc de Sceaux
Coulée Verte

Understand

Get in

By train

The easiest way to get here from Paris is to take the RER  B . To go to Parc de Sceaux, choose the Parc de Sceaux B  or La Croix de Berny B  stations (direction Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse). To be closer to rue Houdan, you can also choose Sceaux  B  (Robinson branch).

By bike, just follow the Coulée verte which starts at Place de Catalogne in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and crosses the suburbs of Malakoff, Châtillon, Bagneux and Fontenay-aux-Roses before reaching Sceaux.

See

  • 🌍 Parc/Château de Sceaux. The departmental domain of Sceaux and the menagerie garden, dating from the time of Louis XIV's financial adviser, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The Château houses the Musée de l'Île de France, a small art gallery. (updated Jun 2021)

Do

  • 🌍 La coulée verte. Bike path/greenway from Paris to the outer suburb of Massy (updated Jun 2021)

Buy

  • 🌍 Rue Houdan, ☏ +33 1 46 02 74 44. Pedestrian road housing a large number of shops, restaurants and tea houses. (updated Jun 2021)

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Connect

Go next

  • Sceaux is located in the middle of a group of parks which can all be visited on foot or by bicycle. Just to the west of the suburb is the park of the Vallée aux Loups, with its forest, its arboretum and the house of Chateaubriand, and the Henri Sellier park in the nearby commune of Le Plessis-Robinson which offers, from its terrace, a panoramic view on Sceaux and the south-eastern suburbs of Paris. Robinson in particular is known for its tree houses, particularly the Pavillon Lafontaine.


Routes through Sceaux
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse ← Antony ←  S  N  → Bourg-la-Reine → Paris
END ←  W  N  → Bourg-la-Reine → Paris


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