2 minutes 2 discover Saint-Mandé (4K)

A virtual tour of Saint-Mandé, in the city center, Saint-Mandé, France. Saint-Mandé is a French commune located in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region. It is an upscale residential town, nicknamed the "Neuilly of the East" of Paris. It borders Paris beyond the Porte de Saint-Mandé and the Porte de Vincennes. The commune owes its name to Saint Maudez, an abbot from Brittany born in the 6th century, whose relic was brought to the site of the future Saint-Mandé in the 10th century, during the Scandinavian invasion and occupation of Brittany (911-936). In the following century, the relic was moved to the Bois de Vincennes, and a chapel was built to house it, to which a priory was attached. The commune of Saint-Mandé covers only 92 hectares, due in particular to the historical amputation of the Bel-Air district of Paris in the 19th century and the administrative attachment of the Bois de Vincennes, of which it was dependent until 1929, to Paris.