Yville-sur-Seine
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Places of interest
- A fifteenth-century timber constructed manoir.
- A stone cross from the thirteenth century.
- The church of St. Leger, dating from the twelfth century.
- The eighteenth-century chateau of Yville, a privately owned historical monument. The magnificent gardens and grounds include a collection of hollyHollyIlex) is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones world wide....
(ilex sp), box (buxusBuxusBuxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box or boxwood ....
), lilac (syringa) and roses. It was built by Jean-Jacques Martinet, from plans attributed to J H MansartJules Hardouin MansartJules Hardouin-Mansart was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV...
. (See Chateau Official Website)