Marne-la-Vallée is a new French town located east of Paris, in
the Île-de-France region, on the left (south) bank of the Marne.
The new city developed from the 1960s, when the first master
plan for land use planning and town planning (SDAU) was developed,
entrusted to Paul Delouvrier, delegate general for the District of
the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, which was therefore considered
the father of new towns in France.
In 2016, it had a total of
316,171 inhabitants over 171.24 km2, for an average density of 1,846
inhabitants / km2. Relatively large, it stretches over twenty
kilometers from west to east (from Bry-sur-Marne to
Bailly-Romainvilliers), i.e. before the extension of the
intervention perimeter of public development establishments carried
out in 2017. First organized into four sectors, the different
municipalities that make up Marne-la-Vallée then grouped together
into different inter-municipal authorities (see the Composition
section below).
Its inhabitants are called the Marnovallians.
Chessy with "Sealife Paris Val d'Europe" and the "Sculptures de la
Dhuys"
Serris with its regional shopping center "Val d'Europe" and
"Vallée Village"
Château and park of Champs-sur-Marne
Noisy-le-Grand with its listed church of Saint-Sulpice and Notre-Dame,
its Villa Cathala, its Espace Michel-Simon, the Palacio d'Abraxas and
Picasso's Arenas, its Ballon monument, its Clos-Saint- Vincent, its
parks, its Fort de Villiers (being restored) and its regional shopping
center "Arcades"
The municipal museums of Villiers-sur-Marne,
Bry-sur-Marne, Lagny-sur-Marne and soon Noisy-le-Grand (currently
associative)
The Louis-Braille Museum in Coupvray
Noisiel with its
former Menier chocolate factory, the Buisson farm, its former
working-class town and its English-style park
Bussy-Saint-Georges
with its N.D. du Val church, the largest Buddhist temple in Europe and
the Russon mill
Bussy-Saint-Martin with the "Rentilly-Michel-Chartier
Cultural Park"
Torcy with its old Charmettes castle with park, its
"Bay 1" shopping and leisure center, and its leisure and outdoor center
College with its regional shopping center "Bay 2"
Lagny with its
Notre-Dame-des-Ardents collegiate church, its old Saint-Furcy church,
its old abbey (current town hall) and its river base
The banks of the
Marne, from Lagny-sur-Marne to Bry-sur-Marne, via Torcy, Noisiel,
Champs-sur-Marne and Noisy-le-Grand.
Disneyland Paris – tourist heavyweight in Seine-et-Marne and
Île-de-France, after Paris.
Rentilly-Michel-Chartier Cultural Park
Bussy-Saint-Martin
Espace Michel-Simon Noisy-le-Grand – Performance
hall.
Le Bijou Noisy-le-Grand – The municipal art house cinema.
La
Ferme du Buisson Noisiel – Performance hall, national stage.
Cinema
of Lagny-sur-Marne Lagny-sur-Marne
Municipal cultural centers (In
Villiers-sur-Marne, in Bry-sur-Marne, in Noisy-le-Grand, in
Champs-sur-Marne, in Emerainville, in Noisiel, in Torcy, in
Lagny-sur-Marne, in Saint -Thibault-des-Vignes, in
Bailly-Romainvilliers, in Chessy)
The shopping centers of
Villiers-sur-Marne, Noisy-le-Grand (cinemas), Torcy (cinemas),
Collégien, Montévrain and Serris
The municipal swimming pools and
aquatic centers of Villiers-sur-Marne, Noisy-le-Grand, Emerainville,
Torcy, Lagny-sur-Marne, Bailly-Romainvilliers and Coupvray
River
tourism and water sports on the Marne
First flights and flying
lessons at Lognes aerodrome.
The Mots Buée festival in the towns of
Val Maubuée
The Baroque Frisson festival, the Autumn Jazz Festival,
the Ritournelles Festival and the Rando Méli-Mélo in the municipalities
of Marne and Gondoire
The Printemps de Paroles festival at the
Rentilly-Michel-Chartier cultural park in Bussy-Saint-Martin
The
Chemins de Traverse festival at Espace Michel-Simon and the Games
festival at Villa Cathala in Noisy-le-Grand
Classical and singing
concerts at the Château de Champs-sur-Marne, the Notre-Dame-des-Ardents
collegiate church in Lagny-sur-Marne, the Notre-Dame-du-Val church in
Bussy-Saint-Georges, the Saint-Sulpice church in Noisy-le-Grand and the
various municipal cultural centers, MJC and MPT
The international
piano competition, the "Beauty will save the world" festival and the
international FILM festival in Lagny-sur-Marne
Garage sales, flea
markets, barter and flea markets in Torcy, Noisiel, Magny-le-Hongre,
Serris, Lagny-sur-Marne and Noisy-le-Grand
The Antiques Fair and
Brocante of Noisy-le-Grand
The Strides of Bussy-Saint-Georges and
Noisy-le-Grand
The Oxy-Trail, the second in Île-de-France after
Paris, and Val Maubuée en Fête, in the Noisiel park, and the Pulp
festival at the Ferme du Buisson
The Marne and Gondoire Marathon
The harvest at Clos Saint-Vincent in Noisy-le-Grand
The carnivals of
Noisy-le-Grand and Lagny-sur-Marne
The Noisy-le-Grand Christmas
market, the most authentic and largest in Île-de-France, with a mobile
ice rink
Lagny-sur-Marne Christmas Fairies, with mobile ice rink
The medieval festival at Villa Cathala in Noisy-le-Grand
The Marne
festival of the neighboring municipalities in Seine-et-Marne
The
Festival of Nature in the Paris-Vallée de la Marne conurbation
Sport
in celebration and Les Musicales de Val d'Europe
Music Festival,
Cinema Festival, European Night of Museums, European Heritage Days,
European Days of Crafts, Industry Week, National Crafts Week, New Year's
Eve Chinese, the forum of Associations, sports meetings, markets, in
certain municipalities.
Les pavés de Lagny, creation of the master chocolate maker Jérôme
Lépinay, rocks made with chocolate, almond and hazelnut pralines, ginger
and orange peel.
Dry white wine from Clos Saint-Vincent and honey
from Villa Cathala in Noisy-le-Grand.
Brie honey, jams and jellies
from small local producers.
La Cueillette du Plessis in
Chanteloup-en-Brie, a vegetable garden, market and basket, where you can
mainly find local products from Briard and Seine-et-Marnais.
Baker-patissier-chocolatier-glacier Claude Legrand Lagny – Offers many
specialties including Choc'o'fruits with mandarin ganache and orange
ganache coated in milk chocolate or Choc'o'apéro with goat cheese,
grapes, Reblochon almonds or Roquefort walnuts or French tradition
baguette with natural sourdough.
Ferme de Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes –
Here you can find good milk fresh from the farm as well as all its
by-products, and even some products from the Briard region.
La Vallée
Village Logo indicating a link to the website Logo indicating a
Wikipedia link (near the Val d'Europe Regional Shopping Center in
Serris) – There are around a hundred low-cost brand name shops.
In the 1960s, to cope with the rapid development of
the Parisian agglomeration, it was decided to control its
development by creating several new towns around Paris. The
development of the first master plan for land use planning and
development (SDAU) was entrusted to Paul Delouvrier, delegate
general for the District of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, who
was therefore considered to be the father of new towns in France.
To the east of Paris, the choice of development fell on the
valley of the south bank of the Marne made up of small villages and
hamlets, very little urbanized at the time, and which therefore had
large land reserves that were easily mobilized. . Unlike other new
towns, such as Cergy-Pontoise or Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
Marne-la-Vallée will not be organized around a single urban center
created from scratch, but rather around many urban centers, linked
by the RER and the A4 motorway, the two major axes of the new town.
This layout model is inspired by the new Swedish towns, built in the
suburbs of Stockholm, and offers real advantages in terms of urban
density and transport.
For practical and logical reasons,
urbanization was decided from west to east, on the basis of four
development sectors: Porte de Paris, Val Maubués, Val de Bussy, Val
d'Europe. The oldest districts of the new city are therefore located
in sectors 1 and 2 (Porte de Paris and Val Maubués) around the
existing city centers. Their development is now almost complete.
Sectors 3 and 4 are currently booming and in full urbanization.
Since the extension of Epamarne's scope of intervention, certain
sectors of the new town have seen their names changed: sector 1
Porte de Paris has become Métropole du Grand Paris, Val Maubués is
Paris-Vallée de la Marne, Val de Bussy is Marne-et-Gondoire.
Some good recommended addresses for French gastronomic restaurants:
The Auberge du Pont de Bry - La Grappille Bry-sur-Marne
The Clos
du Château in Champs-sur-Marne.
The Chessy Table Chessy
The Golden
Eagle Croissy-Beaubourg
The Baron at the castle of Ferrières-en-Brie.
The Relais de Guermantes Inn Guermantes
The Lognes Briefing
The
Interpreter at Serris.
The Torcy Talk
Auberge des Charmettes Torcy
The Old Inn Villeneuve-le-Comte
La Villa, B28, L'Atelier Saint-Père,
La Chapelle des Gourmets in Lagny-sur-Marne.
Sweets in
Villiers-sur-Marne.
Le Petit Magot and Vinalia in Noisy-le-Grand.
Also many chain or independent restaurants serving foreign cuisine
(Asian, Italian, Oriental, etc.), not to mention cafeterias,
supermarkets, fast food restaurants, food trucks, markets and food
shops.