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The best shopping in Fontainebleau isn't in the malls — it's on the streets. From vintage stores to artisan workshops, spots like Grand Apartments and Gallery of Francis I are scattered through neighborhoods that reward the curious walker. Wander further and you'll stumble on Forest of Fontainebleau — the kind of find you can't replicate online.
A royal palace surrounded by one of France's largest forests, where French monarchs lived for eight centuries.
Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free self-guided shopping tour route in Fontainebleau. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Grand Apartments — the royal apartments spanning eight centuries of French monarchs, Gallery of Francis I — a Renaissance gallery with frescoes and stucco work that influenced French art for centuries, Napoleon's apartments — the rooms where Napoleon signed his abdication in 1814, plus hidden gems like Forest of Fontainebleau — 25,000 hectares of forest with sandstone boulder fields popular with climbers worldwide and Barbizon — a village on the forest edge where pre-Impressionist painters like Millet and Rousseau worked.
Use this page as a starting point for a Fontainebleau walking tour, a free self-guided route, or the Roamee app for Fontainebleau. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.
Visitors explore Fontainebleau for history and architecture, but every walking route ends up passing through Grand Apartments and Gallery of Francis I and neighborhood markets that tell their own story about the city. Don't overlook Forest of Fontainebleau — it reflects what the people of Fontainebleau actually buy, make, and value.
The palace is less crowded than Versailles and reachable by train from Paris in 40 minutes. The forest is best explored by car or bicycle.
April through October. The forest is beautiful in autumn. The palace is closed Tuesdays.
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