Maurepas (Yvelines)

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Maurepas
Coat of arms of Maurepas
Maurepas (France)
Maurepas
region Île-de-France
Department Yvelines
Arrondissement Rambouillet
Canton Maurepas (main town)
Community association Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Coordinates 48 ° 46 ′  N , 1 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′  N , 1 ° 57 ′  E
height 87-178 m
surface 8.32 km 2
Residents 18,281 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 2,197 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 78310
INSEE code 78383
Website http://www.maurepas.net/

Maurepas is a French municipality with 18,281 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . It belongs to the arrondissement of Rambouillet and the canton of the same name .

location

The city is on the N10 national road between Versailles (19 km) and Rambouillet (18 km).

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Maurepas (Yvelines)

  • Remains of a defense tower, built around the year 1000 and destroyed by the English in the Hundred Years War in 1425 .
  • Church Saint-Sauveur at the foot of the ruined castle of the 15th and 16th centuries.
  • Notre Dame church in the center of the city. Built in 1973 by the architect Roland Predieri and decorated with a large facade mosaic (250 m²) by the artist Robert Lesbounit .

  • Defense tower

  • Church Saint-Sauveur

Town twinning

Sister cities of Maurepas

There are partnerships within the framework of development cooperation with Mopti in Mali and Bait Sahur in Palestine .

Personalities

Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), director, actor and writer, died in Maurepas and is buried there.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Yvelines. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-070-1 , pp. 487-490.

Web links

Commons : Maurepas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ^ Website of the city - jumelages , accessed on April 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Entry about the twin cities on the homepage of the City of Usedom.Retrieved on April 8, 2019, 10:50 pm