Mantes la Jolie

Mantes-la-Jolie is a French commune in the Yvelines department and in the Île-de-France region , the capital of the arrondissement . It is a medium-sized city, located on the left bank of the Seine , 57 km west of Paris .

Crossroads of waterways and land, Mantes appeared very early on as a place of commerce and trade, but also as a strategic stronghold on the borders of Île-de-France and Normandy .

Government
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Canton	Mantes-la-Jolie
Mayor (2020–2026)	Raphaël Cognet
Area¹	9.38 km² (3.62 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)	44,299
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)

There are generally four sectors, each with a characteristic urban shape. They reflect the urbanization of the city from east to west:

the city center : a dense and commercial district;
Gassicourt : a residential suburban area;
the Val Fourré : a large housing complex ;
the Hautes Garennes : a non-urbanized sector, site of a future river eco-district.

Economy

Mantes is home to small businesses working on concrete and chemical processing, but is inevitably drawn into the economic area of nearby Paris.

It is historically and at present a center of musical instrument manufacturing. The well known Buffet Crampon woodwind factory is located in the neighbourhood city of Mantes-la-Ville.

Transportation

Mantes-la-Jolie is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare and Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail lines: Mantes-Station and Mantes-la-Jolie. The Gare de Mantes-la-Jolie is also served by TGV trains towards Le Havre, and Cherbourg.

Education

The establishments of Mantes-la-Jolie come under the Academy of Versailles and are part of the C zone for school holidays. Primary education (from kindergarten to elementary) falls under the jurisdiction of the municipality , the colleges of the department and the high schools of the region . The town of Mantes-la-Jolie has eighteen nursery schools, thirteen elementary schools, three primary schools, seven middle schools, three high schools and several higher education establishments.

Colleges and universities:

University Institute of Technology of Mantes en Yvelines
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

Culture

Architectural heritage

Mantes retains vestiges and buildings from its history, such as the Notre-Dame collegiate church and the Old Bridge , immortalized by Camille Corot .

Civil heritage

“Renaissance” fountain
Tour Saint-Martin, vestige of the fortifications
Door to the Priest, vestige of the fortifications
Porte Chant à l’Oie, or rather a vestige that was part of the old fortifications
Some mansions
Three portals on rue Baudin in the historic center
The Old Bridge , which dates back to the xii ^th century . It connected the city of Limay Mantes but a part was demolished to build the bridge Peronnet xviii ^th century . Only a few arches remain.

Religious heritage

Collegiate Notre Dame , church Gothic
Tour St. Maclou , the last vestige of a church demolished in 1806
Church of St. Anne Gassicourt , Romanesque church
Priory St. Mary Magdalene , founded in the early xii ^th century and destroyed the revolution.
Church of St. John the Baptist Val-Fourre, modern building of the xx ^th century

Cultural facilities

The city of Mantes-la-Jolie has a large number of cultural places such as exhibition spaces, cinema or concert halls, media libraries and cultural centers:

Hôtel-Dieu Museum (lapidary deposit, exhibition of paintings);
Saint-Jacques Chapel;
Duhamel Pavilion;
Georges-Duhamel media library;
Louis-Aragon media library;
Chopin game library;
Mega-CGR multiplex (9 rooms);
Le Chaplin multimedia cultural center;
National School of Music, Dance and Theater of Mantes-en-Yvelines;
Ile l’Aumône exhibition center, etc.

Natural heritage

Green belt

Inaugurated in early 2009 , the green belt is a set of gentle circulations crossing the Mantaise agglomeration. Its route allows a continuous path from the wood of Butte-Verte (Mantes-la-Jolie) to the park of the Valley ( Mantes-la-Ville ), passing through the international nautical stadium, the Pierre-Bréan pond , Lac des Pêcheurs, Lac de Gassicourt, Quai de la Tour, Quai des Cordeliers, then the banks of the Vaucouleurs . On this signposted route, priority is given to pedestrian and cyclist traffic.

Parks, gardens and bodies of water

Mantes-la-Jolie has many parks and squares in the heart of the city and vast natural spaces on the banks of the Seine :

Square Brieussel-Bourgeois;
Square Gabrielle d’Estrées;
Square Camille-Thibaut;
Square des Peintres;
Square des Clos;
Ladies’ Island ;
Alms Island ;
Reserve bird of the island Alms ;
Fisherman’s Lake;
International nautical stadium Didier-Simond,etc.

Sports

Sporting events

Many annual sporting events are organized in Mantes-la-Jolie:

Paris-Mantes pedestrian (since 1935);
Paris-Mantes cyclist (since 1945);
Mantes-la-Jolie tennis trophy (since 2000);
Foulées du Mantois-Vexin (since 2005);
Cross schools (since 1977);
Régates de Mantes (since 2009);
International football tournament (since 1985);
Golden Blocks (since 2016);

Sports associations

The municipal sports office (OMS) is an association whose objective is to bring together clubs and Maitais athletes. The Mantaise Sports Association (ASM), created in 1951 , is the largest sports club in Yvelines . We find traditional sports (athletics, badminton, basketball, fencing, artistic and voluntary gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, judo, karate, weightlifting, bodybuilding, etc.) as well as unique sports in the sector such as 4 × 4, ice hockey, karting, figure skating or even off-road motor sports. ASM takes advantage of the Seineand the international nautical stadium Didier-Simond in Mantes-en-Yvelines to allow the practice of rowing, canoeing and sailing.

The club creates and organizes numerous national and international sporting events: the Paris-Mantes march , the Paris-Mantes-en-Yvelines cycling race , the European championships and the Canoe-Kayak World Cup, the French rowing championships.

Other associations allow the practice of additional activities: Baseball club de Mantes , Association Oxygène (boxing), Bougainville sports (football, table tennis, walking and hiking), Association Avalanche (indoor football), Karate club Okinawa , Arts Chinese martial arts of Mantes (kung-fu, tai-chi-chuan and qi-gong), Actions universe sport (bodybuilding and bodybuilding), Taekwondo Val de Seine and the Cercle de yoga du Mantois .

Sports equipment

Mantes-la-Jolie includes many urban sports facilities, accessible to all:

8 football fields;
4 basketball courts;
14 handball / basketball courts;
3 skate parks.

There are other more important equipments:

Mantes-en-Yvelines ice rink;
Aqualude (nautical center);
Stade Jean-Paul-David (1 honor field, 4 football fields, 2 rugby fields and 1 athletics track);
Marcel Doret grounds (2 indoor mini football pitches);
Félicien-Dantan Sports Complex;
Pierre-Souquet sports complex;
Jules-Ladoumègue Gymnasium;
Michel-Chérency Gymnasium;
Georges-Lucan Gymnasium,etc;

The city center of Mantes-la-Jolie is crossed from north to south by the GR 11 hiking trail , the route of which forms a large loop around Paris , in Île-de-France and in Oise .