 Relaxation :
 To relax you, a woody zône, in the South of the municipality, invites you in ballads and in sport. This wood goes on by the forest of Saint Vrain (Cramart's wood), regional forest of Ile-de-France, fitted out in pedestrian routes, sports sylvan routes and equestrian routes.
 Panoramic to convince you!
And for all in love ones with nature, here evolution of the forest, month by month, since the end of January 2011
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The year is finished and my report also. You can, now, see the evolution of the forest over the 12 months of the year 2011.
Life of the forest
The museum "A la rencontre des vieux métiers", to Bouray-sur-Juine, exposes more than 2500 tools to hand representing 17 corporate bodies. It is opened the first one and the third weekend of every month.
- History :
- About Saint-Vrain, please, come out that Madame Du Barry (1743-1793), favourite of Louis XV, bought Saint-Vrain's castle and sttled down there in June, 1775. She resold the domain in October, 1776, and died on the scaffold on December 8th, 1793.
The God of Bouray : a bronze statuette 42 cm high was discovered in 1845 in Juine, to Bouray-sur-Juine. It is exposed to the Museum of the National Antiques to Saint Germain en Laye. It's one of the most beautiful representations of a Gallic God of time Gallo-Romaine.
- Remembrances :
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You've noticed certainly the obelisk, in your right-hand side, betwwen Marolles and Saint-Vrain. But do you know that this obelisk was built in 1750, by Louis Duval de l'Epinois, to remind the work of Cassini during the geometrical description of France. This monument recollection is situated in 2 km of the meridian of Paris.
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This obelisk reminds me Juvisy-sur-Orge's pyramid (along the main road 7, not far from the look-out post Camille Flammarion).
This quadrangular building was built in 1740 by the Academy of the Sciences, to immortalize the memory of the abbot Picard, Lacaille and Cassini, who allowed, of this base, precise measure of the length of a ground meridian.
- The footnotes of history :
- Sanson. This name reminds you at once the famous executioner of the Revolution. He executed Louis XVI. He'd bought Vert-le-Petit's presbytery (national property sold in 1798). The batiment always exists and shelters at present the municipal library.
Chevrier. Name of the bean "always green", the process of conservation of which was invented in 1872, by Gabriel Chevrier (1824-1895), native of Brétigny-sur-Orge.
- Please, follow the arrow :
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Between Arpajon and Athis-Mons, 40 km of tracks wait for you along the Orge and along its plans of water.
Conceived 25 years ago, the Walk of Orge constitutes a real green casting in the environment urbanized of the North of the Essonne. Numerous organizations-bridges, areas of picnics, sports courses, panels of information and situation - decorate the course without degrading sites.
You'll discover it a fauna and a flora very varied : 63 sorts of birds nest in proximity of Orge; willows, iris, reeds and more than 279 sorts of trees are along the edge of water. Finally, since the Walk, you can admire Lormoy's castle, Longpont's basilica, Montlhéry's tower, or bridge of Belles Fontaines.
- So many reasons for putting you in the green for a ballad in the course of the Orge.
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Sources : The guide discoveries of the Essonne 2001, The Walk of the Orge published by the SIVOA.
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