The Forest of Fontainebleau

By on 03/12/2009 in Attractions, Paris
  • It is one of the major forests in France
  • The former hunting park of the Palace
  • Well known for its large boulders
  • Around sixty kilometres southeast of Paris, France
  • Surrounded by a territory of 280 square kilometers
  • Placed in the southwestern part of the department of Seine-et-Marne, and in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau of which the neighboring department is Essonne.
  • Gives birth to feel hundreds of kilometers away from Paris and provides for numerous outdoor activities such as cycling, horseback riding, bouldering (rock-climbing) and jogging
  • The  forest contains three thousand species of mushrooms, European beech, oak , and Scots pine, seven thousand animal species, a large numbe of flowers such as common juniper, orchids, peach-leaved bellflower, red feather clover, service tree of Fontainebleau, snowy mespilus, tor grass, vincetoxicum, wild madder, and birds such as blue tit, bonelli’s warbler, chiffchaff, great tit, lesser spotted woodpecker, willow warbler

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