In Yvelines, a suburb or Paris, you can visit the quirky “France Miniature” park. It is designed in the shape of France and displays 150 monuments, rivers, seas, mountains, railway lines on a much smaller scale. The reproductions are very faithful to reality. This is an outing that children especially would enjoy.

Open from 1 April to 5 Novembre 2006
Hours: 10am to 6pm and from 10am to 7 pm in July and August.
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays in September and October (except during the All Saints’ Day holidays, open everyday)

France Miniature
25, rue du Mesnil (Boulevard André-Malraux)
78990 Elancourt Saint-Quentin en Yvelines

How to get there: From Gare Montparnasse, take the train to Elancourt La Verriere. Train tickets are 22 euros per person 15 and over, 17.30 euros for children 10-14 and 11.80 euros for children 4-10 years old.

Admission to the park is 15.50 euros for 15 and over, 10 euros 4-14 years.