Gisors
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Coordinates: 49°16′52″N 1°46′38″E / 49.2811°N 1.7772°ECoordinates: 49°16′52″N 1°46′38″E / 49.2811°N 1.7772°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Normandy |
Department | Eure |
Arrondissement | Les Andelys |
Canton | Gisors |
Intercommunality | Vexin Normand |
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• Mayor (2020–2026) | Alexandre Rassaërt |
Area 1 | 16.67 km2 (6.44 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2018)[1] | 11,674 |
• Density | 700/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 27284 /27140 |
Elevation | 47–142 m (154–466 ft) (avg. 74 m or 243 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
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 12,669 inhabitants (1999 census). 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 Epte, and rivers .
Population[]
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Transport[]
The Gisors station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station.
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.[2][3][4]
Motte and Castle
Castle of Gisors
The so-called Grosse Tour ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.
See also[]
- Communes of the Eure department
References[]
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gisors. |
- Official site
- Gazetteer Entry
- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. .
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- Communes of Eure
- Eure geography stubs