Real estate prices Palaiseau

Palaiseau covers 11.5 km², lies between 47 and 159 m above sea level and had 37,471 inhabitants in the 2023 census.

Palaiseau (pronounced [palɛzo]) is a French commune situated eighteen kilometres south-west of Paris, sub-prefecture of the département of Essonne, in the Île-de-France region. A royal domain in the 6th century and again in the 18th century on the important road from Chartres to Paris, the commune developed strongly from the 19th century onwards with the arrival of the railway. Palaiseau then became a holiday destination, and writers such as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas and Charles Péguy built their villas and small châteaux near the stations.

A little history

The history of Palaiseau begins with the construction for Childebert Ier of a small castle, called palatiolum in Latin, which gave the place its name. Later, Queen Bathilde, wife of King Clovis II, settled there with her son, Clotaire. She was behind the founding of an abbey near the castle, with the monk saint Wandrille who had come from Rouen in connection with a matter concerning the abbaye des Fontanelles. The existence of the site is recorded from 25 July 754, the date on which Pépin le Bref donated the domain of Palaiseau and its dependencies to the abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés during, it is said, the exhumation of the remains of saint Germain in the presence of the Pope.

Places to see in Palaiseau

• the postern gate of the former 13th-century château
• the église St-Michel du Pileu
• the hôtel de Brière and the hôtel de Condé from the 17th century
• the house of François Denis Tronchet
• the houses on the rue de Paris

From Wikidata and the Wikipedia article « Palaiseau », licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, read on 13 October 2026. Translated from the French article. Read the article