Vitry-sur-Seine (; 'Vitry-on-Seine') or simply Vitry is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, 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.
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 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 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.
With about 94,000 inhabitants. Vitry-sur-Seine is the seventh most populated city 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): Vitry-sur-Seine-1 counts 46,849 inhabitants (as of 2014) Vitry-sur-Seine-2 counts 44,339 inhabitants (as of 2014)
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 the commune has 23 preschools (maternelles),"Maternelles." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. and 21 elementary schools,"Élémentaires." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. with a combined total of 9,000 students."Ecoles." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. 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. 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"Lycées." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. 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."Enseignement supérieur." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
Twin towns – sister cities
Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with: Burnley, England, United Kingdom (1958) Kladno, Czech Republic (1966) Meissen, Germany (1973)
Notable people 113, rap group Jimmy Briand, footballer Cédric Bakambu, footballer Sohane Benziane, murder victim Cerrone, musician Raymond Cordy, actor Damien Dovy, karateka Jean Dréville, film director Daniel Duval, film actor, director, writer Squeezie, youtuber David Fleurival, footballer Dorian Godon, professional cyclist Mickaël Hanany, athlete Marc Johnson, artist Jimmy Kébé, footballer Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, footballer Richard Massolin, footballer Doudou Masta, rapper Maé-Bérénice Méité, figure skater Jérémy Menez, footballer Maguy Nestoret, athlete Rohff, rapper Arsène Tchakarian, French-Armenian historian and resistance fighter Lassana Touré, basketball player
See also
Communes of the Val-de-Marne department Ary Bitter
References
External links
Official website Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art Paris-Sud Community