There are many cultural, sporting, entertainment or shopping activities one could do. For more information on this, the best available and updated website is (http://www.fontainebleau-...)
The town is also famous for a horse race track and its Sunday morning food market.
As if the town didnât offer enough as it is, there are many other attractions in the surrounding region. Towns like Barbizon home of the artists, Milly-la-Foret, Samois-sur-Seine, and many othersâ¦
The Forest is also full of sandstone boulders perfect for climbing/bouldering. (http://www.bleau.info) has lots about the climbing
The town is so close to Paris and yet so protected by its forest that Harvard professors in the sixties started the now world renowned INSEAD MBA school. This unique environment attracted other top universities and grandes écoles such as ESIGETEL Engineering School.
The Chateau de Fontainebleau also hosts a summer music institution. It is a combination of a music conservatory and an architecture studio in a historic chateau setting. Courses are taught in English by predominately French musicians, composers, artists, and professors. Nadia Boulanger, a young composition and harmony professor led the school until 1979. The school has influenced such composers as: Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Louise Talma, Samuel Dushkin, Elliott Carter, Beveridge Webster, Kenton Coe and many others.
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