Villers-lès-Nancy (, literally Villers near Nancy) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
Inhabitants are known as Villarois.
Geography Villers-lès-Nancy is a suburb on the southwest of Nancy. The commune goes from Nancy to the Haye forest.
It is composed of three quarters : the Mairie-Placieux quarter, which is the closest to Nancy, the Botanique-Village quarter, which goes from the Jardin botanique du Montet to the Brabois plateau, the Clairlieu quarter, in a large opening of the Haye forest, beyond the A 33.
The neighbourhood communes of the Grand Nancy are : Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.
Population
Points of interest Jardin botanique du Montet
Mayors François Villard, 1791 Jean Claude Charbonnier, 1791 François Villard, 1792 Dieudonné Pierson, 1794 François Villard, 1794 Dieudonné Pierson, 1799 François Houard, 1816 Lefebvre, 1821 Jean Claude Clement, 1831 François Pierson, 1848 Amédée Lefebre de Monjoie, 1871 Hubert Simon, 1875 Louis Valet, 1888 Anatole de Scitivaux de Greische, 1900 Louis Porry, 1912 Louis Pierson de Brabois, 1915 Charles Oudille, 1919 Hyppolyte Briot, 1927 Albert Cattenoz, 1935 Martial Mourot, 1942 Maurice Andre, 1944 Raymond Villaume, 1945 James Moisson, 1947 Paul Muller, 1965 Jean Bernardaux, 1980 Pascal Jacquemin, 2001
Twin towns Oerlinghausen, Germany, 1988
Events Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest celebration that occurs at the end of August/beginning of September Faites du solaire, another feast that occurs each year in October
See also Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
References
External links
Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy Nancy spéléodrome, localized on in Villers-lès-Nancy