Like every year, the European Heritage Days are back, this year on 16 and 17 September! The perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover Versailles Grand Parc and its heritage. 

Here you'll find all the places that are open especially for the occasion! So, see you on the 3rd weekend in September at Versailles Grand Parc?

The programme below is listed in alphabetical order by commune. For places where registration is compulsory, we invite you to register by clicking here.

Bois d'Arcy

Direction du patrimoine cinématographique du CNC 
7 bis rue Alexandre Turpault
Commented visit in french (registration required)
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 6:30PM

Bougival

Dacha Ivan Turgenev
Rue de la Croix au Vents, 78380 Bougival.
Free tour.
Saturday from 2:00PM to 5:00PM and Sunday from 10:30AM to 5:00PM.
 
Eglise Notre-Dame de l’assomption
Place des Combattants, 78380 Bougival.
Organ concert.
Saturday 5:30 to 6:30.

Musée Ivan Tourguéniev - Villa Viardot
16 rue Yvan Tourgueneff, 78380 Bougival.
Commented visit (registration required). 
Saturday from 2:00PM to 5:00PM and Sunday from 10:00AM to 4:00PM.
Concert (registration required)
Sunday from 4:00PM to 5:00PM and 5:30PM to 6:30PM.
 
Vigne de Bougival
Route de Louveciennes
Commented visit in french
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00PM to 3:30PM.

Fontenay-le-fleury

Domaine de Ternay
41 rue René Dorme, 78330 Fontenay-le-Fleury
Free visit of the garden
Sunday from 3:00PM to 6:00PM.

Jouy-en-Josas

Léon Blum's House
41 rue Léon Blum, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas
www.jouy-en-josas.fr
Free visit
Saturday and Sunday from 11:00AM to 6:00PM
Children workshop "Draw me a logo" curated in french.
Saturday and Sunday from 11:30AM to 5:30PM
 
Toile de Jouy Museum
Château de l’Eglantine, 54 rue Charles de Gaulle
Grand Tournament for a young audience
Saturday and Sunday from 11:00AM to 5:00PM
In the footsteps of the vanished Manufacture" tour (registration required) - Curated in french
Saturday and Sunday from 3:00PM to 4:45PM
 
Protestant temple
5 rue du Temple
Commented visite in french
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00PM to 7:00PM
Sunday from 4:00PM to 5:00PM

Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt

Salle Maurice Cointe – Town hall
9 rue Pottier, 78150 Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
www.lechesnay-rocquencourt.fr
"Archives and Citizenship" exhibition
Saturday and Sunday from 9:00AM to 12:00PM and from 1:00PM to 5:00PM
 
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
Domaine de Voluceau RD 307
www.inria.fr
Commented visit in french (registration required)
Saturday from 9:30AM to 6:00PM

Vélizy-Villacoublay 

Carrefour de Babillard
Rue de Villacoublay
Guided tour of the Louvois hydraulic network (registration required)
Saturday from 2:00PM to 5:30PM.

Versailles 

Académie équestre de Versailles – Centre chorégraphique equestre
Manège de la Grande Ecurie du Château
1 avenue Rockefeller
Bartabas.fr/academie-equestre-de-versailles/
Free visit
Saturday and sunday from 9:00AM to 12:00AM
 
Archives communales
1 avenue de Paris
www.versailles.fr/cultire/etablissementsarchives-communales
Free visit
Sunday from 2:00PM to 6:00PM
 
Bibliothèque centrale de Versailles
5 rue de l’indépendance américaine, 78000 Versailles
Free tour of the Galerie des Affaires étrangères, "Treasures of the Versailles Libraries" exhibition
Saturday from 10:00AM to 6:00PM and Sunday from 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Guided tour in french 
Each hours Saturday from 11:00AM to 5:00PM and Sunday from 11:00AM to 4:00PM
 
Bibliothèque de l’heure joyeuse
3 allée Pierre de Coubertin, 78000 Versailles.
Linocut workshop (registration required)
Saturday from 10:30AM to 12:00AM
 
Campus Versailles
Grande Ecurie du Château de Versailles, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday from 10:30AM to 6:00PM and Sunday from 10:30AM to 5:00PM
 
Cathédrale Saint Louis
4 place Saint Louis, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday from 10:00AM to 11:30AM
 
Centre de musique baroque de Versailles – Hôtel des menus-plaisirs
22 avenue du Paris, 78000 Versailles
www.cmbv.fr
Guided tour in french 
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00PM to 5:30PM.
 
Château de la Maye
49 rue du Parc de Clagny, 78000 Versailles
"Stone(s): Sensitive materials" exhibition
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 7:00PM.
 
Palace of Versailles
Avenue Rockefeller, 78000 Versailles.
www.en.chateauversailles.fr/
Special tour
Saturday and Sunday from 9:00AM to 6:30PM.
 
Cimetière des Gonards
17 rue porte de Buc, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french (registration required)
Saturday from 10:30AM to 12:00AM and from 2:00PM to 3:0PM
 
Cour d’appel
5 rue Carnot, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french (registration required)
Saturday from 10:45AM to 5:00PM
 
Fine arts academy of Versailles
11 rue Saint Simon, 78000 Versailles.
Stone-cutting workshop (registration required)
Saturday from 10:00AM to 11:00AM and 2:00PM to 3:00PM and 3:30PM to 4:30PM
 
Eglise Notre-Dame
2 rue Baillet Reviron, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday from 10:00AM to 10:30AM and Sunday from 3:00PM to 5:00PM
 
Eglise Notre-Dame des armées
4 impasse des Gendarmes, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Samedi de 9h30 à 10h30 puis de 14h30 à 15h30 et dimanche de 17h00 à 18h00.
 
Eglise Sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie
25 rue des Chantiers, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Samedi de 14h00 à 16h00 et dimanche de 14h00 à 18h00.
 
Eglise Sainte Jeanne d’Arc
Place Elisabeth Brasseur, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Sunday from 2:00PM to 4:00PM and from 4:00PM to 6:00PM.
 
ENSP – King's Vegetable Garden
10 rue du Maréchal Joffre, 78000 Versailles
Guided tour in french
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 6:00PM.
 
Bishopric of Versailles
16 rue Monseigneur Gibier, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french (registration required)
Saturday and Sunday from 3:00PM to 6:00PM.
 
Hôtel du Barry – Chambre de commerce et d’industrie Versailles-Yvelines
21 avenue du Paris, 78000 Versailles.
Free visit
Sunday from 10:00AM to 5:00PM
 
Jardins familiaux de Versailles
1 rue des petits bois, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.
 
La loge maçonnique
6 rue de Bailly, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday and Sunday from 9:30AM to 5:00PM.
 
Musée Lambinet
54 boulevard de la Reine, 78000 Versailles.
Free visit
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 7:00PM.
 
Pavillon des filtres
Square Royal-Picardie, 78000 Versailles
Asrieupe.org
Guided tour in french
Saturday and Sunday from 3:00PM to 4:00PM.
 
Versailles Chantiers signal box
Rue de la Porte de Buc; 78000 Versailles
Guided tour in french (registration required)
Saturday from 9:00AM to 2:00PM.
 
Temple de Versailles
3 rue Hoche, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00PM to 6:00PM.
 
Théâtre Montansier
13 rue des Réservoirs, 78000 Versaillles
Guided tour in french
Saturday from 11:00AM to 1:00PM then 2:00PM to 5:00PM and Sunday from 2:00PM to 5:00PM.
 
Tiers-lieu de l’Ermitage
23 rue de l’Ermitage, 78000 Versailles.
Guided tour in french from 11:00AM to 12:00AM then 2:00PM to 3:00PM and 4:00PM to 5:00PM.
 
UNIVEM – Museum of Liberation Vehicles
Avenue de Gribeauval, 78000 Versailles.
Discover the vehicles of the Liberation
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 5:00PM.
Exhibition of aerotrain prototypes
Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM to 6:00PM.

Written by Adelaïde