Gennevilliers is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located 9.1 km (5.7 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Canton	Gennevilliers
Government
Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrice Leclerc
Area1	11.64 km2 (4.49 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)	46,907
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)

Town planning 

Urban morphology 

The town of Gennevilliers does not have a real town center. A project is underway and work should start soon in order to make the Town Hall district the city center (esplanade, shops).

The city is divided into several districts:

• The Village (old Gennevilliers) which corresponds to the original village around its church.
• Le Luth is a district located to the north of the city and which. corresponds to the massive urbanization of the city.
• The Garden City.
• The Alms Ditch and The Chevrins.
• Les Agnettes.
• Les Grésillons and Chandon-Brenu. 
• Le Petit Gennevilliers.

Transport

Roads 

Gennevilliers is located at the crossroads of two motorways , the A15 and the A86 . The RN315 extends the A15 to the Gennevilliers bridge , with in particular an underground section called the Sévines tunnel and a second semi-underground.

Public transport 

Inauguration of the T1 tramway in Gennevilliers

• Rail transport  :
  • The town is served by two RER line C stations  :
    • Gennevilliers  ;
    • Les Grésillons .
  • It also has several stations on its territory for line 13 of the Paris metro  
• River and maritime transport: Convoys of up to 5,000 t on the downstream Seine and 3,000  t on the upstream and Oise . Regular river lines of Le Havre-Rouen-Gennevilliers containers with four rotations per week.
• Oil pipeline: Point of arrival for the refineries of the Basse-Seine and point of connection for networks around Paris.

Education

Gennevilliers is located in the Academy of Versailles .

Schools 

The city operates 13 nursery schools and 8 municipal elementary schools . The department manages 3 colleges :

• Guy Môquet college
• The Pasteur college 
• The Edouard Vaillant college 

The Galilée high school is ranked among the 5 best high schools in the Hauts-de-Seine department. 

University life 

The city has since 2009 an annex of the University of Cergy-Pontoise . This takes the form of a university institute of technology and a university teacher training institute. 

Health 

The city has two Municipal Health Centers. The first, located Rue de la Paix in the Village district, provides various consultations, in particular with allergology , dermatology , or even gynecology , among many others. An infirmary and a dental service are also installed there.

Saint-Jean des Grésillons hospital, located on avenue des Grésillons on the edge of town with Asnières-sur-Seine , specializing in functional rehabilitation .

Economy 

Businesses and shops 

Very close to the capital and endowed with a good infrastructure, the city has become an important industrial center of the region, as well as a logistics hub with in particular the headquarters of the Calberson company ( Géodis group ).

The Port of Gennevilliers ( Autonomous Port of Paris ) is the most important of the four major ports of Île-de-France: metallurgical products, minerals, waste, solid fuels, petroleum products, construction materials, machines, vehicles ( Renault ), agricultural products and foodstuffs pass through it.

In the services sector, Gennevilliers is home to the head office and main center of activities of Europ Assistance . 

As far as retail is concerned, the city has three predominantly food hypermarkets bearing the Carrefour , Leader Price and E.Leclerc banners . A shopping center on the edge of the Parc des Chanteraines , called Espace Chantereine , has several brands such as Boulanger , Casa , Fnac , and Lapeyre . Two restaurants with the brands of Hippopotamus and Tablapizza are also installed there.

Culture

Places and monuments 

The town includes several monuments listed in the general inventory of the cultural heritage of France.

• The Pasteur college is built on the site of the Gennevilliers castle. Part of the castle was still visible until 1998 (date of the restructuring of the Pasteur college). The old outbuildings of the castle are still present, at the corner of rue Jean Jaurès and rue Carnot.
• The Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church.
• the refuge of the SPA Grammont  : In 1903 , a lost animal facility, funded by a grant from Gordon Bennett.

And also :

• The Chanteraines park  : part of it is located in the city, with in particular the Chanteraines lake .
• The mosque of Gennevilliers .
• The cemetery of Gennevilliers .

Cultural heritage 

• The Jean Vigo cinema , located in the Cités Jardins district, which has two theaters with 203 and 82 seats respectively. 
• The Théâtre de Gennevilliers , located in the Grésillons district, on the edge of the municipality with Asnières-sur-Seine.
• The Édouard Manet municipal school of fine arts , located in the Village district, within the walls of the old town hall , offers painting and sculpture lessons and offers an exhibition space.
• Le Tamanoir, scene of contemporary and urban music creation, installed in the Luth district.
• A traditional folklore song: La Fille de Gennevilliers.

Sports

• Multisport sports club gennevillois rugby csmg football and genneviloise sports agreement in the Luth district two football clubs in the city
• The CSMG Volley, located at the Gustave Caillebotte gymnasium.
• The city has a nautical center inaugurated in 2009. It has two pools, one 25 meters long and fifteen wide intended for swimming and a second shallower, also 25 meters long but whose width is eight meters this time. 
• The Parc des Sévines is home to the tennis center (10 courts, 6 of which are covered) and the equestrian center (with a career, a riding school, 23 school horses and 10 ponies).