Pantin
Pantin [ pɑtɛ ] is a French town with 53 797 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Ile -de -France northeast of Paris.
Pantin is traversed by the Canal de l' Ourcq, a shipping canal that connects the Marne to the River Seine.
Pantin is connected to the Metro ( Métro line 5 between the Place d' Italie, Bobigny; Stops: Hoche, Église de Pantin, Bobigny - Pantin - Raymond Queneau ) and has a station for the transport line E ( Transilien ).
The city has a long industrial past ( metal-processing industry, textile industry ), which still bear witness to the Moulins de Pantin (mills of Pantin - grain processing ) as a large, on the Canal de l' Ourcq located industrial monument. A major new industrial development are the ateliers de maintenance TGV SNCF ( maintenance of high-speed trains SNCF ). Another important operation are the workshops of Hermès ( jewelry and leather fashion ). Like most of the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, also Pantin is some Hochhausiedlungen in prefab ( grands ensembles ) and a high percentage of immigrants, especially from Turkey, the Maghreb and black Africa coined.
Management
- Mayor Bertrand core ( PS)
- Council ( Conseil municipal): majority socialists and the Greens (as of December 2005)
Pantin is divided into two cantons, the canton of Pantin -Est ( East) with 28 626 and the canton of Pantin -Ouest (West) with 21,293 residents.
Churches
- Catholicism: http://paroisse.stgermain.free.fr/
- Protestant: http://erfpantin.free.fr
Sons and daughters of the town
- Renée Falconetti (1892-1946), French actress
- Patrick Lapeyre ( born 1949 ), French writer and teacher
- Gabriel Obertan (* 1989), French footballer