Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines.
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines. It is one of the original five villes nouvelles of Paris and was named after the Saint Quentin Pond, which was chosen to become the town's centre. The town was built from a greenfield site starting in the 1960s. Its area is 119.2 km2. In 2018, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines had a population of 228,312. It is part of the much larger Paris metropolitan area, and is around 25 km (16 mi) west of the centre of Paris.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01France Miniature
Boulevard André Malraux, Élancourt (take bus number 420 from La Verrière Station),.
- 02Les Arcades du Lac
- 03Musée de la ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Quai François Truffaut (short walk from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station).
- 04Chateau de Plaisir
Stately home and park from the 18th century.
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Things to do
- 01Haute Vallée de Chevreuse
- 02Leisure Island
- 03Velodrome
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Where to eat
- 01Dolia Nova
25 Av.
- 02Pho78
18 Bd Vauban,.
- 03La Table de Savoie et Bretagne
Has two menus: a Breton menu (i.e., Crepes) and a Savoy menu (e.g., fondue, tartiflette).
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Getting to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Airports
- Paris-Orly (ORY), 24 km · Charles de Gaulle (CDG), 45 km · Beauvais-Tillé airport (BVA), 74 km
- Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise) → Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines47 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · €6–8
- Beauvais → Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines73 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
- Lesquin → Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines217 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is 23 km from Paris, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.