Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne Département, Île-de-France Region, France

Name | Tourist Industry | Culture | Transport | Demographics | Cités (Housing projects) | Education

🇫🇷 Vitry-sur-Seine is a commune in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, France, 7.5 km (4.7 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes from Medieval Latin Vitriacum, and before that Victoriacum, meaning "estate of Victorius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Vitry-sur-Seine (meaning "Vitry upon Seine"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Vitry.

Tourist Industry • Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

Culture For some years, Vitry-sur-Seine operated a cultural policy of bringing art to all. For this reason, the commune contains over 100 contemporary sculptures, notably in establishments of public education (schools, secondary schools and High Schools).

Vitry hosts the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art). Opened on 18 November 2005, this museum offers in addition to the workshops of plastic arts, an auditorium and a cinema for art and experimental film.

Vitry is one of the cities that contributed to the development of the Hip hop movement in France. Consequentially, urban art has a very important place in the city

Transport Vitry-sur-Seine is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Vitry-sur-Seine and Les Ardoines.

Orly Airport is located near Vitry-sur-Seine.

Demographics The city can be separated into three distinct parts: the centre containing numerous cités HLM (Housing projects), peripheral neighborhoods belonging to the middle class, and a large industrial area along the Seine river.

The bordering towns are Ivry-sur-Seine, Villejuif, Chevilly-Larue, Thiais, Choisy-le-Roi, Alfortville.

In 2017 the population of the city was estimated at 93,500 inhabitants. Vitry-sur-Seine is the 46th most populated city of France and the seventh of Île-de-France. The rate of unemployment is 26.5%, while national average is under 10%.

Cités (Housing projects) • Cité Balzac • Cité Du Colonel Fabien • Lucien Français • Les Marronniers • La Sablière 200 • La Commune de Paris • Mario Capra • Les Montagnards • Les Montagnes (La Vanoise, Pelvoux, Annapurna) • La Tourraine • Le Mail • Le Moulin Vert • Les Toits et Joie • Gabriel Peri • Cité Robespierre • Cité Barbusse • Le Square de l'Horloge • Cité Camille Groult • Les Malassis • Rouget de l'isle • La Glacière • Cité Bourgogne • Cité Verte • Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc) • Cité des Combattants • Roger Derry • Rosenberg • Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians • La Semise • Couzy.

Education As of 2016 the commune has 23 preschools (maternelles), and 21 elementary schools, with a combined total of 9,000 students. • Public junior high schools (collèges): Danielle-Casanova, Adolphe-Chérioux, Lakanal, Gustave-Monod, and Collège Jules-Valles ◦ In addition Collège Romain-Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine serves a portion of Vitry-sur-Seine • Senior high schools: Lycée Adolphe-Chérioux, Lycée Camille-Claudel, and Lycée Jean-Macé ◦ Lycée Romain-Rolland is in adjacent Ivry-sur-Seine • Private junior-senior high school: Collège-lycée privé Epin

Paris 12 Val de Marne University is the area university.

Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne Département, Île-de-France Region, France 
<b>Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne Département, Île-de-France Region, France</b>
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Vitry-sur-Seine has a population of over 94,650 people. Vitry-sur-Seine also forms one of the centres of the wider L'Haÿ-les-Roses Arrondissement which has a population of over 558,539 people. It is also a part of the larger Val-de-Marne Département.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Vitry-sur-Seine has links with:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Burnley, England 🇨🇿 Kladno, Czech Republic 🇩🇪 Meissen, Germany
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Antipodal to Vitry-sur-Seine is: -177.607,-48.788

Locations Near: Vitry-sur-Seine 2.3928,48.7875

🇫🇷 Ivry-sur-Seine 2.375,48.808 d: 2.6  

🇫🇷 Villejuif 2.364,48.792 d: 2.2  

🇫🇷 Alfortville 2.424,48.805 d: 3  

🇫🇷 13th Arrondissement 2.35,48.817 d: 4.5  

🇫🇷 L'Haÿ-les-Roses 2.341,48.778 d: 3.9  

🇫🇷 Créteil 2.455,48.777 d: 4.7  

🇫🇷 Buzenval 2.402,48.852 d: 7.2  

🇫🇷 Vincennes 2.435,48.845 d: 7.1  

🇫🇷 Val-de-Marne 2.47,48.781 d: 5.7  

🇫🇷 Bagneux 2.314,48.798 d: 5.9  

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