The Amandier is situated in Nanterre, county-town of the Haut-de-Seine, university city and headquarter of the departmental council (county council) and the prefecture. At the gates of Paris, lined with the Seine and the Defense, its geographical location is a crossroads between Paris and the West of Ile-de-France.

This location is ideal if you wish to go to Paris and La Defense as well as in the capital vicinity… because the Eiffel Tower is not the only place to visit...

The hotel faces the Amandiers Theater. Other cultural centers are settled in Nanterre : the Dance School of Paris Opera, the Music House, the Academy of Music and Dance, a multimedia library, libraries, movie theaters, an architectural and historical patrimony, Sainte-Geneviève cathedral; the University of Paris X (32 000 students ), an architectural school , EDF training center, schools and the Association for professional training (AFPA).

You only need to cross the road to reach the Parc André Malraux.

You may as easily go to Paris from the hotel ; either by car, bus or RER.

For an hotel of the same category in Paris, you should pay much more, plus car park (around 20 to 30 euros) and you will not be closer from the Champs Elysées ! (10 minutes by RER from Nanterre-Prefecture station). However, you may feel like discovering other places : There are many in our region off the beaten tracks ! (see our suggestions)

« It will be my pleasure to provide you with a detailled itinerary to numerous places nearby. », Mr Baudet, Manager

We may also arrange your guided tours and reserve entrances for your trips.

A few suggestions for tours :

Théâtre des Amandiers (opposite the Amandier hotel)

7, avenue Pablo Picasso 92000 Nanterre Tel. : 01.46.14.70.00.

Parc André Malraux (You only have to cross the road in front of the Amandier)

If you like go running, climbing or, why not, fishing, there are few steps to reach the André Malraux Park.

In the 60's, Minister André Malraux decided the setting of a park with cultural calling : the Parc André Malraux. At the feet of Tours nuages from Emile Aillaud, a few steps from the Grande Arche, it spreads over 25 ha without fence, in a highly urbanized environment with the Defense area as background. Escape is assured with the collectors garden (opened in the afternoon) and the rose garden gathering more than fifty varieties of climbing roses.
The Park is lively any time of the day : fishermen (a big ornamental lake with two ha is the main feature of the Park), botany lovers, strollers and sportsmen mix. A climbing site, freely accessible, has been installed in 1995.
Different difficulty levels enable beginners to initiate and confirmed sportsmen to improve themselves.

39, avenue Pablo Picasso.

Access :
RER : line A, Nanterre Préfecture.
Bus : 159, 160, 304, 358
Useful telephone numbers:
Reception 01 47 24 28 35
Fishing 01 47 57 17 32
Climbing 01 47 24 07 07

Mémorial de la France Combattante au Mont-Valérien (5 minutes from the hotel by car)

Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard
92150 Suresnes

Tel. : +33 (0) 1 47 28 46 35

Mount Valérien is one of the most elevated hills in Ile de France (162 m). You will discover a panoramic view over the capital and West part of Paris.

The military fort was the scene for the execution of more than a thousand Resistance fighters during the second World War.

The county park has been recently laid out. It occupies 3 ha on north-west and south sides ; the chance for a bucolic walk or a training for sportsmen. You will see a farm with sheeps, goats, cows, hens and a donkey.

You can also go round the Mont Valérien from Suresnes train station. You only need to follow the yellow signs of an easy route. The journey runs along the American cemetery.

Château de la Petite Malmaison (8 minutes from the hotel by car)

La Petite Malmaison was built in 1805 for Empress Joséphine. It had the largest hothouse of the era with rare plants. The hothouse has been destroyed since but the castle is still surrounded with centenary trees. Empress Joséphine endeavoured to decorate and embellish the place by calling on renowed artists such as cabinetmaker Jacob Desmalter and monumental mason Gilet. Her watercolorist, J.P. Redouté, said «Raphaël of flowers », created his most beautiful roses.

Musée national du château de Malmaison (7 minutes from the hotel by car)

Avenue du Château de Malmaison
92500 Rueil-Malmaison

Tel. : +33 (0) 1 41 29 05 55
Fax : +33 (0) 1 41 29 05 56

Free visit on 1st Sunday of each month ; Adult full-price : 4.5 EUR ; reduced-price : 3 EUR

Opening : Sundays and Saturdays from 10am to 6pm. In April, August and September and from October 1 to March 31, from 10am to 12.30am and x to 5.45pm. From May 1 to July 31: from 10am to 5.45pm.

Acquired in 1799 by Joséphine, the Malmaison castle was, with the Tuileries, headquarter of the French government from 1800 to 1802. In 1809, the Empress retired there permanently.

Entirely redecorated in ancient style, by architects Percier and Fontaine in 1800, the castle displays a remarkable panorama of consular art. The music lounge keeps the harp of Empress and the piano of Queen Hortense. The Empress apartments house her extraordinary red and gold oval room with tent shape as well as the bed of Jacob Desmalter where she died on 29 May 1814.

Musée d’Ile-de-France – Château de Sceaux (27 minutes from the hotel by car)

Domaine de Sceaux, 92330 Sceaux

Tel. : 01.46.61.06.71.

Open from 10am to 5pm during winter and until 6pm during summer. Closed on Tuesday and bank holidays. Tariff : 3.35 euros for adults ; free under 18 years old.

Set up in 1937, this museum gathers art works, paintings, ceramics and furniture relating to Paris region history from 17th until half 20th century. Situated in the heart of Sceaux estate, it is set in the castle built between 1856 and 1862 by the Duke and Duchess of Trévise, on the site of an ancient castle of Colbert. The sumptuous park of 152 ha has been designed by Le Nôtre.

La maison de Chateaubriand (27 minutes from the hotel by car)

Next entrance after main Sceaux castle park’ entry. Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 12am and 2pm to 6pm (5pm during fall-winter). Closed morning from October 1 to March 31 (except for groups, by appointment). Annual closure in January.

Chateaubriand acquired this house in 1807. Ten years later, crippled with debts, he had to part with it ; here he had started writing his «Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe».
Juliette Récamier, his mistress, occupied it for a while ; Paul Léautaud died here; Paul Valéry and Anna de Noailles frequented the place.

Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice

On the site of Queen Margot former dwelling (Henri IV first spouse), during 12th century a convalescent and holiday home for the Compagnie Saint-Sulpice, this is the only property, outlived from Ancien Régime in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The seminar today houses the College of Theology.

33, rue Général Leclerc 92130 Issy les Moulineaux

Buildings of the seminar are open to the public during the Journées du Patrimoine on Saturday only (state properties opening day).

Cimetière des Chiens (21 minutes from the hotel by car)

Opened end of summer 1899, this unique site had buried 40.000 animals in 1958. Situated on old Ile des Ravageurs, near the Robinson parc, it has been the first zoological necropolis in the world. Since then, thanks to restoration works, the cemetery keeps on receiving dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, tortoises, birds, fishes but also lion, monkey, gazelle, fennec, ring-tailed lemur whose sepultures, richly sculpted or simply decked with flowers, show their masters’ affection. Some of its residents are famous : Rintintin, hero of television serial or the companions of Saint-Saëns, Courteline, Sacha Guitry, of princes or dukes…

4, pont de Clichy
Asnières-sur-Seine -

M°13 Gennevilliers-Gabriel Péri

Tel : 01 41 11 13 79 ou 01 40 86 21 11

Free visit

Saturdays : 10am-6pm
Sundays : 10am-6pm
Tariff : Free
Telephone event: 01 41 11 13 79

Partial accessibility for disabled

Maison de l’environnement (18 minutes from the hotel by car)

Parc de l’Ile St Germain
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Tel. : +33 (0) 1 55 95 80 70
Fax : +33 (0) 1 55 95 80 79

Tariff : Adult full price : 1.50 EUR ; Free for children under 18 and teachers.

Tour aux Figues (18 minutes from the hotel by car)

Parc de l’Ile St Germain
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Tel. : +33 (0) 1 41 23 87 00
Fax : +33 (0) 1 41 23 87 07

The Tower has been inaugurated in 1988. It characterizes with black graphics on white background, enhanced with red and blue, typical of said Hourloupe era. The blind edifice, conceals a stair enabling the visitor to stroll inside a strictly imaginary garden contrasting with the natural outer environment.

24 meters high, this reinforced concrete and epoxy glass tower stands on foundations plunging 35 meters underground.

Grand Arche de la Défense (7 minutes from the hotel by car)

Symbolising Fraternity, it has been inaugurated for the bicentenary of French revolution.

A canvas cover pulled by cables is used to break the wind, sweeping through two gigantic pillars.

Outer and openwork lifts take you to the summit in sixty seconds for a beautiful panorama over the Île de France and Paris from the roof (110 meters).

1, parvis de la Défense
92044 Paris-la-Défense

Tel. : +33 (0) 1 49 07 27 57
Fax : +33 (0) 1 49 07 27 90

Tariff : Adult full-price : 7 EUR ; Groups (10 persons minimum) : 5.50 EUR ; Children : 4 EUR (free under 6 years old).
Timetable : all day from 10am to 7pm. (in summer, late night opening until 8pm on Friday and Saturday.

Le CNIT
Parvis de la Défense.

A real architectural and technical wizardry: its aerial vault deploying on an equilateral triangle of 218 meters only 6 centimeters deep (it is proportionally 20 times thinner than an egg shell).

Petit train de la Défense

From the Grande Arche to the CNIT, by Notre-Dame-de-Pentecôte or César, Miro, Calder, Moretti works… Settled down in a small train, during 40 minutes, the commented guided tour enables to discover the area’s architectural specificities as well as its numerous art works.