Discover the Military Riding School

Name: Découvrez l’Ecole Militaire d’Equitation
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T15:45:00+02:00
Location: Château de Fontainebleau

As part of the European Heritage Days, and the theme «sports heritage», the castle of Fontainebleau in partnership with the Military Riding School wanted to open ex…

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 11h00, 14h30Passat

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As part of the European Heritage Days, and the theme «sports heritage», the castle of Fontainebleau in partnership with the Military Riding School wished to exceptionally open the doors of the Manège Sénarmont overlooking the English garden. This opening will allow visitors to the castle to discover the English garden this building 66 meters long and 20 meters wide and classified as historical monuments. Located between the carp pond and the forest, the Sénarmont armoury, formerly an imperial armoury, is the main building built at the request of Napoleon I within the Fontainebleau Palace. This armoury is now used by the Military Riding School.
We invite you to visit the gardens of the Château de Fontainebleau at the Ecole Militaire d'Equitation to discover the activities that will be offered during these days:
Presentation of the ride in its historical setting with the presence of re-enactors
Dressage of young horses and learning of the first codes
Show jumping by riders of the Ecole Militaire d'Equitation

À propos du lieu

Château de Fontainebleau

Place du Général de Gaulle 77300 Fontainebleau

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

Palace with 1,500 rooms spread out in the heart of 130 hectares of park and gardens. Residence of the French sovereigns since the 12th century, entirely rebuilt by François I who kept only the keep formerly inhabited by King Saint Louis, and had a sumptuous interior decoration executed by Italian artists under the direction of Rosso and the Primatice (group of artists known as the Fontainebleau School). Notably enlarged by Henri IV, modified from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by his successors, who partly destroyed the decoration of the sixteenth century.
Photo: The Grille d'Honneur and the Cour des Adieux Frédéric Perrot

Etiquetas

Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, Tourisme et handicap, Monument historique

Accès

By road: Porte d'Orléans, Porte d'Italie, take the A6, exit Fontainebleau then follow signs «château». SNCF: departure from Gare de Lyon (main lines), get off at Fontainebleau-Avon station, then bus 1 direction Les Lilas, stop Château.