Vitry-sur-Seine

Vitry-sur-Seine
Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art
Paris and inner ring departments
Location within Île-de-France region  Vitry-sur-Seine
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Créteil
Statistics
Land area1	11.67 km2 (4.51 sq mi)
Population2	84,369  (2006)
- Density	7,230 /km2 (18,700 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94081/ 94400
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.

Vitry-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: ​[vi.tʁi.syʁ.sɛn]) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 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.

Main sights

• 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

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	3,025	—
1800	2,018	−33.3%
1806	2,100	+4.1%
1821	1,956	−6.9%
1831	2,188	+11.9%
1836	2,079	−5.0%
1841	2,506	+20.5%
1846	2,831	+13.0%
1851	2,559	−9.6%
1856	2,600	+1.6%
1861	3,095	+19.0%
1866	3,745	+21.0%
1872	3,758	+0.3%
1876	4,155	+10.6%
1881	5,284	+27.2%
1886	6,122	+15.9%
1891	7,161	+17.0%
1896	8,010	+11.9%
1901	9,894	+23.5%
1906	11,497	+16.2%
1911	14,969	+30.2%
1921	21,492	+43.6%
1926	31,355	+45.9%
1931	41,919	+33.7%
1936	46,945	+12.0%
1946	44,058	−6.1%
1954	52,540	+19.3%
1962	64,409	+22.6%
1968	77,846	+20.9%
1975	87,316	+12.2%
1982	85,263	−2.4%
1990	82,400	−3.4%
1999	78,908	−4.2%
2006	84,369	+6.9%

The city can be separated into two distinct parts, a north side containing numerous cités HLM (Housing projects) and a south side belonging to the middle class.

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

In 2008 the population of the city was estimated at 82,500 inhabitants. The rate of unemployment is 29.5%, while national average is 14% Vitry-sur-Seine is the fiftieth most populated city of France and the tenth of Île-de-France.

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Vitry-sur-Seine in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 72.9% 27.1% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 2.7% 2.7% 5.9% 15.8% ¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. ²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Administration

Vitry is divided into three canton (districts):

• Vitry-sur-seine-Est counts 27 812 inhabitants
• Vitry-sur-seine-Nord counts 24 986 inhabitants
• Vitry-sur-seine-Ouest counts 26 110 inhabitants

(data dating from 1999)

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 (Also named Cité Shaolin owing to the great number of Asians)
• La Glacière
• Cité Bourgogne
• Cité Verte
• Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc)
• Cité des Combattants
• Roger Derry
• Rosenberg
• Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians
• La Semise
• Couzy

Twin towns

Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with:

• Burnley, United Kingdom, from 1958 to 1974 and since 1995
• Kladno, Czech Republic, since 1966
• Meissen, Germany, since 1973

Personalities

• Jimmy Briand, footballer
• Doudou Masta, rapper
• Damien Dovy, karateka
• David Fleurival, footballer
• Mickaël Hanany, athlete
• Jimmy Kébé, footballer
• rap group 113 composed of rappers (Rim-K, AP (rapper) and Mokobé
• Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, footballer
• Richard Massolin, footballer
• Jérémy Menez, footballer
• Maguy Nestoret, athlete
• Rohff, rapper
• Lassana Touré, basketball player

See also

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

References

• INSEE
• Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

External links

• Official website
• Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art
• Paris-Sud Community (English)