Cernay-La-Ville: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The wetlands of the Vaux de Cernay comprise ponds, meadows and reed beds and are considered particularly rich in ecological terms. Les Vaux de Cernay is designated as a classified site.

Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Cernay-la-Ville can include this in their travel plans.

Culture and History

The Église Saint-Brice has been listed as a “Monument historique” since 20 June 1928. Its main construction phase dates from the third quarter of the 16th century.

The Domaine de l’ancienne abbaye des Vaux de Cernay is a medieval monastic complex that was remodelled in the Neo-Gothic style in 1875 by Baroness Nathalie de Rothschild.

Le Petit Moulin des Vaux de Cernay bears the Île-de-France “Patrimoine d’intérêt régional” label. A scenographically designed exhibition presents the history of the Vaux there, featuring multimedia and audiovisual elements, original paintings by landscape artists, sketches, as well as objects and tools from everyday life at the time.

Le Petit Moulin is accessible to people with reduced mobility, has an induction loop for hearing-impaired visitors with compatible equipment, offers tours in sign language by reservation, and has designated disabled parking spaces at the museum entrance.

In the 19th century, Cernay-la-Ville attracted landscape artists; Léon Germain Pelouse founded the “Colonie des peintres de Cernay”.

Hikes and Tours

The “La vallée du Ru des Vaux entre Cernay et Senlisse” route is an easy, 4.5 km circular hike lasting around two hours, starting and ending at the car park of the Centre culturel Léon-Germain Pelouse. Its themes are fauna and flora.

The “Au fil des Moulins” route is a moderately difficult, 6.8 km circular hike lasting around three hours, starting and ending at the car park next to the wall of the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay in Cernay-la-Ville. Here too, the themes are fauna and flora.

The “La carrière des Maréchaux, sentier pédagogique” route is a very easy, 4.1 km circular hike lasting around one hour, starting from the Maréchaux car park. Its themes are archaeology and history, fauna and flora, and geology.

The regional nature park offers guided full-day and half-day tours in the Vaux de Cernay throughout the year, including tours to discover the Vaux de Cernay and Le Petit Moulin, the mills, and the landscape artists.

The “Paysages pittoresques des Vaux de Cernay” route begins and ends in Cernay-la-Ville at the car park next to the boundary wall of the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay.

More local pages: Magny-Les-Hameaux, Bullion, Mittainville, Le Mesnil-Le-Roi, Chevreuse, Orgerus, Lommoye, Houilles.

To the higher-level travel overview: Yvelines.