What to do and see in Trappes

Trappes is located in Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region. This town has twenty nine thousand and eight hundred inhabitants. Trappes is part of the western suburbs of Paris and it is only sixteen and a half miles away from its center.

1. Cité-jardin (Garden City)

These are forty houses which form the so-called "Saw tooth". The houses were built in the first half of the twentieth century, in 1926, by the architects Henry and Andre Gutton for the railway. The facades of these buildings are positioned at the angle of 45 ° toward the street. These houses have the size of sixty six square meter and gardens of three hundred and fifty square meters.

3. Casemate allemande

Casemate allemande (German bunkers) are located in the area near the railway. These bunkers were built during the Second World War when the Germans decided to fortify the place. The bunkers housed a gunner on duty. In 1944, these strategic elements were repeatedly bombed by Allied aircraft.

5. Ancien mur de fortification

Ancien mur de fortification (Old fortification wall) dates from the sixteenth century. In 1520, Jean II Ballue, lord of Villepreux, butler of the king and lieutenant governor of Paris, obtained permission to surround the area with walls and ditches. This wall is a part of this fortifications and it is still in remarkably good condition.

2. Église Saint-Georges

Église Saint-Georges (Church of St. George) was built at the beginning of eighteenth century on the foundation of the previous building from the ninth century. The church has a quadrangular tower in pseudo-Romanesque style. It housed the bell, called "Marguerite Elizabeth" in 1647, that was cracked at a ceremony during the interwar period. It was consolidated into two smaller bells that are still used today.

4. Porche de l’ancien château (Porch of the old castle)

The monumental entrance porch of the current municipal technical center is built on the spot of the main castle doors. This castle was built in the tenth or eleventh century and it was flanked by eleven towers and surrounded by moats. Stones plow wheels placed at the entrance porch show the evolution of the fortified place. The castle became a farm before being bought at the sale of national assets in 1791.

This town has a very long history. This town was built in the time of the Roman Empire. Trappes is very popular among tourist.