Why this ride
A 95 km round trip from Boulogne-Billancourt - roughly 1 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner, Palace and Park of Versailles and back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret and Palace and Park of Versailles
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 95 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner → Palace and Park of Versailles
This part of the ride is 20 km of Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner → Palace and Park of Versailles.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 20 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret
In the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, tucked into a quiet cul-de-sac off the Square du Docteur-Blanche, stand two white houses that changed how people thought about living. The Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret were designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in the mid 1920s, one for a Swiss banker and art collector, Raoul La Roche, and one for Jeanneret's brother, a musician. Today the building houses the Fondation Le Corbusier, and the interiors, with their ramps, flat roofs, ribbon windows and rather austere palette, are open to visitors on certain days, so check the schedule before you go.
Read the complete Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret is where the day begins. Next is Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner.
2. Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner
On a gentle rise above the Seine at Poissy, set back from the road in a meadow ringed by trees, a white box floats on thin columns. Villa Savoye is perhaps the most famous house of the twentieth century, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret for a wealthy family as a weekend retreat and completed in 1931. It is the purest built expression of Le Corbusier's five points of a new architecture: pilotis, a free plan, a free façade, horizontal ribbon windows and a roof garden. Since 2016 it has been part of the World Heritage site of his architectural work, along with the small gardener's lodge at the entrance, a miniature echo of the main house.
Read the complete Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Palace and Park of Versailles.
3. Palace and Park of Versailles
Louis XIV wanted a stage on which the whole French nobility would have to perform for him, and Versailles is what that ambition looks like in stone, gilt and gravel. His father's modest hunting lodge on a damp plateau west of Paris grew, over decades of building, into the palace you see now, and in 1682 the court moved out here for good. The Hall of Mirrors, the chapel, the endless enfilade of state rooms: all of it was designed so that a duke had to queue to watch the king get dressed. A long way from the Paris mob, too, which was rather the point, until the mob walked out here in October 1789 and fetched the royal family back to the city.
Read the complete Palace and Park of Versailles write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Palace and Park of Versailles. Next is back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner.
4. back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner, late in the day. Next is Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret.
5. Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret to Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner
Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret → Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner to Palace and Park of Versailles
Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner → Palace and Park of Versailles is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palace and Park of Versailles to back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner
Palace and Park of Versailles → back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner to Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret
back through Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner → Maisons La Roche et Jeanneret is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.