Paris Daytrips

Trip	Travel Time
Versailles	40-60min.
Chartres	65-75min.
Fontainebleau	55-65min.
Chantilly	45-75min.
Giverny	1-1hr.
Vaux-le-Vicomte	1-2hr.
Auvers-sur-Oise	1-1hr.
Disneyland Resort Paris	45-50min.

Versailles

By sheer force of ego, the Sun King converted a hunting lodge into the world’s most famous palace. The sprawling château and gardens testify to Louis XIV’s absolute power, and absolute ego. What ...more

Chartres

Nothing compares to Chartres. It is the thinking of the Middle Ages itself made visible. —Émile Male Were it not for a scrap of fabric, the cathedral and town of Chartres might still be a sleepy hamlet ...more

Fontainebleau

More digestible and less crowded than Versailles, the Château de Fontainebleau achieves nearly the same grandeur while preserving a distinct charm among the great royal châteaux. With lush gardens ...more

Chantilly

The French don’t call whipped cream “Chantilly” for nothing—this 14th- to 19th-century château is as whimsical and fluffy as the delicious dessert supposedly invented on its grounds. An amalgam ...more

Giverny

Drawn to the verdant hills, woodsy haystacks, and lily-strewn Epte River, painter Claude Monet and his eight children settled in Giverny in 1883. By 1887, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, and Mary ...more

Vaux-Le-Vicomte

Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV’s Minister of Finance, assembled the triumvirate of Le Vau, Le Brun, and Le Nôtre (architect, artist, and landscaper) to build Vaux-le-Vicomte in 1641. On August 17, 1661 ...more

Auvers-Sur-Oise

I am entirely absorbed by these plains of wheat on a vast expanse of hills—like an ocean of tender yellow, pale green, and soft mauve. —Vincent van Gogh, 1890 This once-sleepy little hamlet has transformed ...more

Disneyland Resort Paris

It’s a small, small world, and Disney is hell-bent on making it even smaller. When EuroDisney opened on April 12, 1992, Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, and Snow White were met by the jeers of French intellectuals ...more