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Commune in Île-de-France, France
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Rambouillet is a town in the Yvelines department of Île-de-France, to the south-west of Paris. It is most well-known for the Château de Rambouillet and its vast grounds which blend into the Forest of Rambouillet, which also acted as the official summer residence of the President of France until 2009.
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Former royal and presidential residence with beautiful and expansive gardens.
Neo-gothic church built in the 19th century
Bergerie Nationale
Farm and agricultural school, home of the Rambouillet Merino breed of sheep and with a small boutique selling agricultural products
Miniature train museum
Second-most visited forest in the Paris region after Fontainebleau
Rambouillet station is the terminus of the Rambouillet branch of Line which connects the town with Montparnasse station in Paris.
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