Grez-sur-Loing. Grez-sur-Loing is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France.
The Church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Laurent was the church of a priory dependent on Saint Peter's Abbey in Sens. It dates from the twelfth century and houses some tombs of the sixteenth century.
The Tower of Ganne, built by Louis VI the fat in 1127, at the same time as the castle. The Old bridge, former bridge of Grez-en-Gâtinais built between the 12th century and the 14th century.
Destroyed several times it was rebuilt identically in 1980. Tacot des Lacs, a narrow-gauge heritage railway running about lakes on plains of the Loing river.
It is located 70 km south of Paris and is notable for the artists and musicians who have lived or stayed there. The painter Fernande Sadler became mayor and encouraged the community gathering paintings and she wrote about the artists there. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson met his wife Karin Bergöö while they were both staying at Grez. Others include Irish artist Frank O'Meara, Swedish artists Karl Nordström, Carl Larsson, Emma Chadwick, Julia Beck and Bruno Liljefors as well as writer August Strindberg, the Danish and Norwegian members of the Skagen Painters, and Robert Louis Stevenson. American artists were John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons, Will Hicox Low, Theodore Robinson, Willard Metcalf, Bruce Crane, and Kenyon Cox.
The Church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Laurent was the church of a priory dependent on Saint Peter's Abbey in Sens. It dates from the twelfth century and houses some tombs of the sixteenth century.
The Tower of Ganne, built by Louis VI the fat in 1127, at the same time as the castle. The Old bridge, former bridge of Grez-en-Gâtinais built between the 12th century and the 14th century.
Destroyed several times it was rebuilt identically in 1980. Tacot des Lacs, a narrow-gauge heritage railway running about lakes on plains of the Loing river.
It is located 70 km south of Paris and is notable for the artists and musicians who have lived or stayed there. The painter Fernande Sadler became mayor and encouraged the community gathering paintings and she wrote about the artists there. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson met his wife Karin Bergöö while they were both staying at Grez. Others include Irish artist Frank O'Meara, Swedish artists Karl Nordström, Carl Larsson, Emma Chadwick, Julia Beck and Bruno Liljefors as well as writer August Strindberg, the Danish and Norwegian members of the Skagen Painters, and Robert Louis Stevenson. American artists were John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons, Will Hicox Low, Theodore Robinson, Willard Metcalf, Bruce Crane, and Kenyon Cox.
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