La Garenne-Colombes
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region | Île-de-France | |
Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
Arrondissement | Nanterre | |
Canton | Colombes-2 | |
Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris Ouest La Défense |
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Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 2 ° 15' E | |
height | 37-46 m | |
surface | 1.78 km 2 | |
Residents | 29,169 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 16,387 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 92250 | |
INSEE code | 92035 | |
Website | www.lagarennecolombes.fr | |
![]() The town hall of La Garenne-Colombes |
La Garenne-Colombes is a French commune with 29,169 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), in the canton of Colombes-2 , in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region . Their inhabitants are called Garennois or Garennoises . Mayor is Philippe Juvin .
geography
La Garenne-Colombes is often called La Garenne and is nicknamed petit Neuilly .
List of mayors
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Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
There are around 1200 companies in La Garenne-Colombes, the most important of which are
- The Peugeot research center
- Boston Scientific International
- Claranova
- La Centrale
- Fox Kids France
traffic
The place has two train stations: Les Vallées and La Garenne-Colombes on the L des Transilien line .
La Garenne-Colombes is served by the RATP bus routes 73, 161, 163, 164, 176, 178, 262, 272, 278, 358, 378 and by the night bus routes N24 and N152.
Since 2012, La Garenne-Colombes has been served by line 2 of the Paris tram (T2) at the stations Les Fauvelles and Charlebourg .
education
- Pre-primary and primary schools: Ecole René Guest, Ecole André Marsault, Ecole Ernest Renan, Ecole Sainte Geneviève (private), Ecole Sagot Voltaire
- Collège: Les Vallées
- The La Tournelle vocational school
Housing stock
La Garenne-Colombes has more than 13,000 apartments, 9.8% of which are social housing .
Town twinning
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Fernand Oury (1920–1997), educator
- Daniel Billon , painter
- Patrick Chesnais (born 1947), actor
- Catherine Picard (* 1952), politician ( PS )
- Pascal Jules , cyclist
- Émilie Le Pennec , gymnast
- Anne Girouard (* 1976), actress
Personalities with a connection to the city
- Claude Gensac (1927–2016), actress
- William Klein (* 1928), painter and photographer
- Bernard Menez (born 1944), French singer and comedian
- Pierre Probst , draftsman
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 200-201.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.