Rambouillet is a town in the Yvelines department of Île-de-France, to the south-west of Paris. It is most well-known for the Château de Rambouillet and its vast grounds which blend into the Forest of Rambouillet, which also acted as the official summer residence of the President of France until 2009.

Get in

Rambouillet station is the terminus of the Rambouillet branch of Line  N  which connects the town with Montparnasse station in Paris. However, Rambouillet is also an intermediate stop on the TER Centre-Val de Loire service from Montparnasse to Chartres and it is considerably quicker to get to Rambouillet from Paris or Versailles by taking the TER than by taking the N.

See

Château de Rambouillet

Grounds of the Château de Rambouillet

Bergerie Nationale

• 1 Château de Rambouillet. Former royal and presidential residence with beautiful and expansive gardens. (updated Nov 2021)
• 2 Church of Saint Lubin and Saint Jean-Baptiste. Neo-gothic church built in the 19th century (updated Nov 2021)
• 3 National sheep farm (Bergerie Nationale). Farm and agricultural school, home of the Rambouillet Merino breed of sheep and with a small boutique selling agricultural products (updated Nov 2021)
• 4 Rambolitrain. Miniature train museum (updated Nov 2021)

Do

• 1 Forest of Rambouillet. Second-most visited forest in the Paris region after Fontainebleau (updated Nov 2021)

Go next

• Versailles
• Chartres