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Vincennes is famous for its castle: the Château de Vincennes. It is next to but does not include the Bois de Vincennes , from which it took its name, which is attached to the city of Paris. History [ edit ]
- Grouseland (Harrison Mansion) William Henry Harrison’s residence when he was Governor of the Indiana Territory (1800-1812) is a fine Federal-style building, preserved as a National Historic Landmark.
- Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy. One of America’s most beloved 20th-century entertainers was born in Vincennes in 1913. Starting out on showboats in the 1920s to help support a family that had lost its father before he was born, Skelton would go on to have a glittering 70-year career, also making a name as an accomplished painter of clowns.
- George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. On the riverside, at the site of the 18th-century Fort Sackville, is a spectacular granite rotunda erected to commemorate the extraordinary feats of George Rogers Clark (1752-1818) in the winter of 1778-79.
- St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library. Dating back to 1826, this Greek Revival basilica is in fact the third church to be built on this site. The oldest was a primitive log structure with a bark roof, raised around 1732.
- Château de Vincennes. You may recognise this monument by its formidable 52-metre 14th-century donjon, which has four circular turrets, arrow loops and crenellations, all defended by an outer walled enclosure and a deep, impassable moat.
- Bois de Vincennes. The château started as a hunting lodge, built by King Louis VII in the 12th century, and the Bois de Vincennes was where the kings came for their sport.
- Parc Floral de Paris. The tourist trail in Paris can be exhausting in summer, which makes the city’s parks such a godsend. The Parc Floral is in the Bois de Vincennes, and is still the fourth largest Paris park in its own right.
- Palais de la Porte Dorée. You’ll have three motives for dropping by this outlandish building on the western side of the Bois de Vincennes: To drink in the otherworldly architecture, to reflect at the Immigration Museum and to appreciate the marine life at the aquarium in the basement.
Vincennes founded the new trading post near the meeting points of the Wabash and White rivers, and the overland Buffalo Trace. Vincennes, who had lived with his father among the Miami tribe, persuaded the Piankeshaw to establish a village at his trading post.
At the gateway to Paris, visit the château de Vincennes, a testimony of medieval architecture.
Vincennes, town, eastern residential suburb of Paris, Val-de-Marne département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, immediately outside the Paris city limits. The château of Vincennes, which succeeded an earlier fortified hunting lodge on the site, consists of four principal buildings—the keep, the chapel, and two pavilions ...
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