Discovering the town

10 miles from Paris and 20mn from Saint-Lazare Station, Cormeilles-en-Parisis is the highest point Northwest of Paris, East of the Montmorency Valley and North of Cergy Pontoise (the County Town).

 

Sites

• Saint Martin Church : an ancient monument highly restored (stained-glass windows and paintings)
• Schlumberger Park (departmental park)
• Lambert quarry (gypsum and marl)

Places of memory

• Plaster museum
• Old Cormeilles Museum with a room dedicated to Daguerre (inventor of the photograph)
• The stronghold of Cormeilles

Culture and Pastimes

• Public library
• Cormier Theater
• Cyber- space
• Henri Cazalis space

Sports equipments

• Sports center Léo Tavarez
• Swimming -pool
• Stadium Gaston Frémont

Regular events

• Photographs and films exchanges
• Secondhand market
• Outside cinema
• Band concerts of June 21st
• Heritage Weekend
• Arts and Crafts Exhibition
• The Fine Arts Exhibition
• Cartoons Festival

A fast-expanding economic activity

The new sites of the “Carrefour des Champs Guillaume” and the “Bois Rochefort” are areas especially developed for firms.

Cormeilles has the biggest open gypsum and marl quarry of Europe.

660 economic items:

• About one hundred items for healthcare
• More than 300 items for arts.
• 120 shops.

More than 2,100 workers are employed in them.

The shopkeepers propose high-quality products in a traditional and friendly environment.

Cormeilles-en-Parisis won 3 distinctions for its flowers.

The efforts done by the town gardeners and the people of Cormeilles, who decorate their gardens and balconies with flowers made Cormeilles be awarded in 2002 a third flower from the County.

Identity card

Val d’Oise (95th main administrative division)

Area: 833 hectares.

Parks, woods and grounds: 112 ha (approximately 13% of the total area)

Altitude: 170m (at the highest point)

Population: 23,645 and 27,000 (estimate for the end of the building of the commercial area of the Bois Rochefort)

Density: 2,816 inh /km2

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