Cergy (Municipality, Val-d'Oise, France)

Last modified: 2003-05-31 by ivan sache
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by Arnaud Leroy

Source: Mairie de Cergy

• Presentation of the city
• Description of the flag

See also:

• France
• Val-d'Oise (Department, France)

Presentation of the city

Cergy is a municipality of ca. 50,000 inhabitants,
Cergy was built around the last loop made by the river Oise before flowing into the Seine.The city is made of three parts:

• Cergy-Préfecture, the administrative center, with the préfecture and the General Council;
• Cergy-Village, the ancient village;
• Cergy-Saint-Christophe, known for the 10-m diameter clock of its railway station and the Axe Majeur ("Main Axis"), an architectural project materializing the axis of the loop of Oise. The Axis starts from the panoramic tower (190 steps), surrounded by a semi-circle of high buildings designed by the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill. In Cergy-Village, the marina of Port-Cergy was the first river marina built in Ile-de-France. There is also a watersport resort in the Ponds of Cergy-Neuville (250 ha), located on former sand quarries.

Cergy is the main center of the ville nouvelle of Cergy-Pontoise, which includes the municipalities of Pontoise (29,000 inh.), Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (19,000 inh.), Jouy-le-Moutier (17,000 inh.), Eragny (15,000 inh.), Osny (12,000 inh.), Vauréal (12,000 inh.), Menucourt (5,000 inh.), Courdimanche (4,500 inh