Gisors
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City as seen from the castle terrasse
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Country | France | |
Region | Normandy | |
Department | Eure | |
Arrondissement | Les Andelys | |
Canton | Gisors | |
Intercommunality | Vexin Normand | |
Government | ||
• Mayor (2022–2026) | José Cerqueira[1] | |
Area1 | 16.67 km2 (6.44 sq mi) | |
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INSEE/Postal code | 27284 / 27140 | |
Elevation | 47–142 m (154–466 ft) (avg. 74 m or 243 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
Gisors (French pronunciation: [ʒizɔʁ]) is a commune of Normandy, France. It is located 62.9 km (39.1 mi) northwest from the centre of Paris.
Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of Trie-Château and Trie-la-Ville, form an urban area of 13,915 inhabitants (2018).[2] This urban area is a satellite town of Paris.
Geography
Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy, at the confluence of the rivers Epte, Troesne and Réveillon.
Population
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Transport
The Gisors station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station, and of a TER Normandie local service to Serqueux.
Sights
- Château de Gisors, built in the 11th century.
- The Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais parish church is an outstanding monument fusing Gothic and Renaissance architecture.
- A field near Gisors was the site of the Cutting of the elm, a medieval diplomatic incident.[5][6][7]
- Château de Boisgeloup, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso.[8]
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Motte and Castle
See also
References
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- ↑ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gisors, EHESS. Script error: No such module "In lang".
- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ↑ Bradford Smith, The Foundations of the West - Course Material, Chapter 8 The Age of the Crusades - The Rise of France under Philip Augustus and of St. Louis Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Oglethorpe University, Summer 2000.
- ↑ Nicholas Vincent, "William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine", in: Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association vol. 25, no. 102 (2000).
- ↑ A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel's Chronicle, a translation by Robert Levine of the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims, a thirteenth-century historical fiction Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1990.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gisors. |
- Official site
- Gazetteer Entry
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