Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif- sur -Yvette is a French town with 20,622 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) about 30 km south-west of Paris in the department of Essonne in the Ile- de -France region.
Geography
Gif- sur -Yvette is located 20 kilometers southeast of the metropolitan area of Paris, on the banks of the River Yvette, more rural, at the entrance to the Regional Natural Park Haute vallée de Chevreuse.
History
A Celtic settlement, whose foundations in 2006 by archaeologists from the government research institute INRAP ( Institut national de recherches archéologiques ) were brought to light, existed on the present municipality of Gif- sur -Yvette in the 6th century BC. Available are the remains of fifteen houses and workshops and Unratgruben, where jewelry and pottery shards were found. The number of inhabitants is estimated for this time to about one hundred people.
Policy
Twinning
- Olpe, in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany, since July 28, 2001
Personalities
People with relationship to the city:
- Juliette Adam (nee Lambert ) ( 1836-1936 ), French writer, polemicist, republican Salonnière and women's rights activist, earned order to set up a branch of their salons of Paris in August 1882, the estate of the Abbaye Notre -Dame du Val de Gif
- Fernand Léger (1881-1955), French painter, died in Gif- sur -Yvette, where he had a studio
Traffic
Fast track:
- Connection to the eastern and southern of passenger transport network of Paris by the Réseau Express Régional (RER) Line: RER B
Street:
- Highway: Near the two A10 and A86
- National road RN 118