Sarcelles (särsĕl'), city (1990 pop. 57,121), Val-d'Oise dept., N central France. Mostly residential, it has some light industry. A church dating partly from the 12th cent. and partly from the Renaissance is in Sarcelles.
Sarcelles
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Coordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956°N 2.3808°E
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Commune of Sarcelles |
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| Country | France |
| Department | Val-d'Oise (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Sarcelles |
| Canton | chief town of 2 cantons: Sarcelles-Nord-Est Sarcelles-Sud-Ouest |
| Intercommunality | CA Val de France |
| Mayor | François Pupponi (2001–2008) |
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| Land area1 | 8.45 km2 (3.26 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 58,500 (2005 [1]) |
| - Density | 6,923 /km2 (17,930 /sq mi) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 95585/ 95200 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Sarcelles is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km (10.1 mi). (10.1 miles) from the center of Paris. Sarcelles is a sous-préfecture of the Val-d'Oise département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles.
In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs, many of them Jewish, who left Algeria due to the Algerian War of Independence.
There is a large market on Sundays.
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Transport
Sarcelles is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.
It is also served by Sarcelles – Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town center of Sarcelles.
Twin towns
Sarcelles is twinned with:
Netanya, Israel
Hattersheim, Germany, since 1987
See also
References
- ^ 2005 estimate, 57,871 at the 1999 census
External links
- Official website (French)
- Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
- Land use (IAURIF) (English)
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