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Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Communauté d'agglomération in Île-de-France, France

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines.

Plan a trip to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines→From Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise)

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.

Get in

Getting to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is relatively well-served by public transport from Paris, with the RER C and Transilien lines N and U serving the major hub of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the N serving several communes further out. Stations served by the C, U and the Rambouillet branch of the N :

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    Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
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    Trappes
  3. 03
    La Verrière
  4. 04
    Coignières
See

Worth seeing

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    France Miniature

    Boulevard André Malraux, Élancourt (take bus number 420 from La Verrière Station),.

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    Les Arcades du Lac
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    Musée de la ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

    Quai François Truffaut (short walk from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station).

  4. 04
    Chateau de Plaisir

    Stately home and park from the 18th century.

Do

Things to do

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    Haute Vallée de Chevreuse
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    Leisure Island
  3. 03
    Velodrome
Eat

Where to eat

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    Dolia Nova

    25 Av.

  2. 02
    Pho78

    18 Bd Vauban,.

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    La Table de Savoie et Bretagne

    Has two menus: a Breton menu (i.e., Crepes) and a Savoy menu (e.g., fondue, tartiflette).

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Krzysztof Golik (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.