Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Villepinte is a French city in the Seine -Saint- Denis, Ile- de -France region with 35.850 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) and is located around 18 km north-east of the center of Paris.
At Villepinte borders the municipalities of Tremblay -en -France, Aulnay -sous- Bois, Sevran, Vaujours and Gonesse.
History
The old center ( " le Vieux- Pays ") of occupied since the 9th century originally dominated by agriculture village has largely preserved its historic character.
Due to the convenient transport industry and trade new housing estates have settled here since the 1960s, emerged. Since 1981, here, the fairgrounds is ( Parc des Expositions), Paris -Nord.
Since the 1960s, the population of Villepinte has almost quintupled, in the newly built housing estates live as in most places in the Parisian suburb of countless immigrants (these account for about 23 % of the population of the town ):
Sources: Cassini and INSEE
Traffic
Villepinte is located on the Autoroute A104 and is virtually bisected by this; Also it lies within the catchment area of the airports Le Bourget and Roissy -Charles -de- Gaulle. About the S -Bahn line RER B Villepinte is about the stations Villepinte ( branch B3), Parc des Expositions ( branch B3) and Le Vert -Galant ( branch B5 ) with the Charles -de- Gaulle airport and downtown Paris connected.
Economy
Villepinte is the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Guerbet.
Community partnership
Villepinte is twinned with the village of Schönebürg the community Schwendihotel in the German Baden- Württemberg.
Sons and daughters of the city
- Patrick Da Rocha ( born 1961 ), track cyclist
- Alou Diarra ( born 1981 ), football player
- Solenne figues (* 1979), swimmer
- Saïd Taghmaoui (born 1973 ), actor
- Ibrahima Traoré (* 1988), Guinean football player