The Gorges d'Apremont (near the little town of Barbizon, famed as a haunt of 19th-century landscape painters) tend to be less crowded.
The Gorges d'Apremont are not as busy as other areas.
An active government cultural policy in recent years has ?­preserved the architectural monuments of the  national patrimony  from the ravages of time, weather, war, revolution, and urban development.