Villeneuve-la-Guyard: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

The GR 2 long-distance hiking trail runs through the Yonne department along a 74-kilometre section between Flacy and Villeneuve-la-Guyard. Villeneuve-la-Guyard is also home to So'Fun Village, a leisure and water sports centre. The jet ski activities at So'Fun Village take place on a 22-hectare body of water. The quad biking course there includes climbs, descents, bridge crossings and drifts.

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Culture and history

The Église Saint-Germain is dedicated to Saint Germain, Bishop of Auxerre. The Maison Claude Debussy welcomes visitors to the longère in the hamlet of Bichain in Villeneuve-la-Guyard, where the composer spent his summers from 1901 to 1903. The Maison Claude Debussy museum features a bedroom reconstructed in the style of the period and hosts conferences, exhibitions and concerts.

In the vicinity of Villeneuve-la-Guyard are the ruins of the Abbaye de Preuilly, the Pincevent historic site and the Abbaye de la Cour-Notre-Dame historic site. Further afield in the region lies the Bernardines de Bray-sur-Seine historic site (Priory).

Landscape

The hills of Mont Aiveu, Haut des Beautés and Mont Ussy lie further afield in the region around Villeneuve-la-Guyard.

Local life

The Foire aux Oignons takes place in Villeneuve-la-Guyard every last weekend in August. It includes a market featuring products from the region. There is also an onion-peeling competition, in which participants peel as many onions as possible in three minutes.

Further destinations: Vincelles, Bèze, Châtel-Gérard, Irancy, Charentenay, Maillot, Treigny, Thorigny-Sur-Oreuse

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