Meaux

The main architectural elements that make up the Episcopal city are:

• St. Stephen's Cathedral offers a harmonious vision of gothic style of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with a show at the remarkable elegance. Indeed, the Cathedral of Meaux begun around 1180 was not completed until 1530-1540 with, between the beginning and end of work, several phases of Gothic art having left each time traces tangible building. The wide variety of shapes and styles did not violate the aesthetic qualities of the cathedral and is the first originality in comparison with other buildings rather noticed by their stylistic unity.
• The Bossuet museum, former Bishop's Palace at the foot of the cathedral. The palace was built from the twelfth to the seventeenth century and consists of a remarkable architecture, low rooms, a large hall of the synod and apartments with wood paneling of the eighteenth century. The first floor exhibits paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when the Dwarf, Rigaud, Bon de Boulogne From Troy, Senelle meet. Then the nineteenth with Millet, Gerome... and also sculptures Bouchardon. These works come from the former collection of bishops Meaux, plus donations and bequests. Visiting the museum Bossuet invites you to trace the architectural and factual history of this old residence of the Bishops of Meaux, while walking through the various rooms of the palace where the memory of Bossuet is always present.
• Old Chapter, located east of the court of the diocese was sometimes called "castle chapter" because of its four turrets corbelled inspired by the military architecture of the Middle Ages. This vast building has two large vaulted rooms of warheads in the basement and the ground floor, a noble room on the first floor and finally an attic under the roof. Not accessible to visitors.
• The Bossuet garden created in the seventeenth century, during the episcopate of Dominica Seguier in line with French gardens, has a geometric form resembling a bishop's miter. Local tradition assigns the young André Le Nôtre authorship of this garden.
• The garden of the Remparts is an extension of the garden Bossuet on the walls offering Meaux a remarkable site. It houses the small chapel called "flag Bossuet" and the beautiful alley of yews which extends over sixty meters. Website available only as part of guided tours.
• The House of Brie Meaux is a scenic route that lies at the heart of the episcopal city. It invites you to discover the history of cheese, but also the various stages of manufacture of Brie Meaux, harvesting milk ripening cellar.
• A little further, do not miss the Museum of the Great War, inaugurated on 11 November 2011, which fits naturally in the heritage area, witnessed the extreme advanced German army in September 1914. With more than 70,000 objects and documents, the largest collection of World War I Europe addresses the global dimension of the conflict both technically and militarily as human and societal perspective.
• The Pâtis Natural Park located a few steps from downtown offers an incredible gallery of landscapes and spaces equally amazing as each other by their diversity and beauty: ponds, along the Marne, flower meadows, large reed bed, woodlands giving them shade and freshness. The Pâtis Park hosts a fauna and flora rich and valuable that you can surprise the bend of a road or bridge. So many treasures to discover in your walks!
• St. Faron cheese, opens its doors to discover the secrets and refining of Meaux Bries and Melun. Enjoy a guided tour of the cheese and enjoy a tasting at the end.

• every Saturday Market - Market District in downtown.
• Market every Tuesday morning - Boulevard Jean Rose in the city center.
• Farmers' Market every Sunday morning - Cinema Square in the city center.
• Great Hunting for Easter eggs: in April (Episcopal city park and Chenonceau).
• Museum Night / Meaux at night: in May.

• Free museums Open from 19h to midnight.
• Guided tours and various activities offered in the city center.
• Free access.

• The Fortnight Visual Arts Meaux: in May and June.

• Getting to honor artistic practices in both amateur practice only through known artists work.
• Several exhibition spaces.
• Free admission.

• Water Festival: in June.

• Numerous water sports (canoeing, rowing, pedalo...) but also walks zodiac, jet ski show or dog demonstrations "Newfoundland".
• Quai Sadi Carnot in the river Marne.
• Free admission.

• Show History Meaux "Epochs Folles"

• Performances on Fridays and Saturdays from mid-June to early July at 22:30 and from late August to mid-September at 21:45.

• The range Meaux in July and August.

• Supervised swimming, wading pool, various animations...
• Extended Quai Jacques Prévert.
• Free admission.

• Sportissimeaux in September.

• Initiations, demonstrations and meetings with sports clubs and associations of Seine-et-Marne.
• Tauziet Sports Complex.
• Free admission.

• European Heritage Days in September.

• Free access to museums.
• Numerous tours offered free access and / or reservation.

• Meaux celebrates Brie and the 40 years of its A.O.P. : In October 2020.

• National Competition of Brie Meaux: Graduation followed by a chapter exceptional.
• Frequently in the Episcopal city with entertainment.
• Free admission.

• Meaux and Wonderland in December

• Animation in the city center.
• Free access.

• The crypt of Jouarre.
• Crecy-la-Chapelle and Notre Dame College.
• La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and heritage of the millstone.
• Lizy-sur-Ourcq and Crouy-on-Ourcq.
• The valleys of the Grand and Petit Morin.