Vitry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero.
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.
Main sights
The Hôtel de Ville, which opened in 1985, is on Avenue Youri Gagarine,
and the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, which opened in 2005, is on Place de la Libération.
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 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 center 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%.
Immigration
As of circa 1998
Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry had a combined Asian population of 3,600. That year about 250 Asians from those communes worked in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, and the overall demographics of Ivry and Vitry Asians were similar to those in the 13th arrondissement.
[Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor). The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas. Hong Kong University Press, 1 January 1998. , 9789622094468. CITED: p. 197.]
Administration
Vitry is divided into two cantons (districts):
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Vitry-sur-Seine-1 counts 46,849 inhabitants (as of 2014)
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Vitry-sur-Seine-2 counts 44,339 inhabitants (as of 2014)
Cités (Housing projects)
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Cité Balzac
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Cité Du Colonel Fabien
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Lucien Français
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Les Marronniers
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La Sablière 200
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La Commune de Paris
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Mario Capra
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Les Montagnards
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Les Montagnes (La Vanoise, Pelvoux, Annapurna)
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La Tourraine
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Le Mail
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Le Moulin Vert
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Les Toits et Joie
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Gabriel Peri
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Cité Robespierre
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Cité Barbusse
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Le Square de l'Horloge
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Cité Camille Groult
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Les Malassis
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Rouget de l'isle
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La Glacière
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Cité Bourgogne
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Cité Verte
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Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc)
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Cité des Combattants
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Roger Derry
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Rosenberg
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Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians
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La Semise
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Couzy
Education
the commune has 23 preschools (''maternelles''),["[http://www.vitry94.fr/education-formation/ecoles/maternelles/ Maternelles]." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.] and 21 elementary schools,["[http://www.vitry94.fr/education-formation/ecoles/elementaires/ Élémentaires]." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.] with a combined total of 9,000 students.["[http://www.vitry94.fr/education-formation/ecoles/ Ecoles]." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.]
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Public junior high schools ( collèges): Danielle-Casanova, Adolphe-Chérioux, Lakanal, Gustave-Monod, and Collège Jules-Valles
[" Collèges." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.]
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In addition Collège Romain-Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine serves a portion of Vitry-sur-Seine
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Senior high schools: Lycée Adolphe-Chérioux, Lycée Camille-Claudel, and Lycée Jean-Macé
[" Lycées." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.]
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Lycée Romain-Rolland is in adjacent Ivry-sur-Seine
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Private junior-senior high school: Collège-lycée privé Epin
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Paris 12 Val de Marne University is the area university.[" Enseignement supérieur." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.]
Twin towns – sister cities
Vitry-sur-Seine is
Sister city with:
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Burnley, England, United Kingdom (1958)
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Kladno, Czech Republic (1966)
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Meissen, Germany (1973)
Notable people
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113, rap group
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Jimmy Briand, footballer
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Cédric Bakambu, footballer
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Sohane Benziane, murder victim
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Cerrone, musician
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Raymond Cordy, actor
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Damien Dovy, karateka
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Jean Dréville, film director
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Daniel Duval, film actor, director, writer
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Squeezie, youtuber
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David Fleurival, footballer
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Mickaël Hanany, athlete
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Marc Johnson, artist
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Jimmy Kébé, footballer
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Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, footballer
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Richard Massolin, footballer
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Doudou Masta, rapper
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Maé-Bérénice Méité, figure skater
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Jérémy Menez, footballer
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Maguy Nestoret, athlete
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Rohff, rapper
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Arsène Tchakarian, French-Armenian historian and resistance fighter
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Lassana Touré, basketball player
See also
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Communes of the Val-de-Marne department
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Ary Bitter
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