Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis
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| Coordinates: 48°57′00″N 2°23′00″E / 48.9500°N 2.3833°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Denis |
| Canton | Saint-Denis-2 |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Azzédine Taïbi[1] |
| Area 1 | 5.39 km2 (2.08 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 40,359 |
| • Density | 7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 93072 /93240 |
| Elevation | 46 m (151 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Stains (French pronunciation: [stɛ̃] ) is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.6 km (7.2 mi) from the center of Paris.[citation needed]
Heraldry
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Argent with two wavy vert fesses, a chief Gules charged with three ears of wheat stalked and leaves with gold | |
| motto: semina metes (sow and you shall reap) | ||
Population
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Transport
[edit]Stains is served by Pierrefitte – Stains station on Paris RER line D. This station is located at the border between the commune of Stains and the commune of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, on the Pierrefitte-sur-Seine side of the border.[citation needed]
Education
[edit]Schools in Stains:[5]
- 11 public preschools/nursery schools (maternelles)
- 13 public elementary schools
- 3 public junior high schools: Barbara, Joliot Curie, and Pablo Neruda
- 1 public senior high school/sixth-form college: Lycée polyvalent Maurice Utrillo
- 1 private junior high school: Collège privé Sainte-Marie.
Monuments
[edit]- Château de Stains (transl. Castle of Stains, destroyed in the War of 1870)
- Cité-jardin de Stains (transl. Garden City of Stains)
- Town hall of Stains
- Château de la Motte (transl. Castle of La Motte, destroyed in 1819 with the exception of a few outbuildings)[6]
- L'église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Stains (Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Stains)
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Château de Stains in 1870 -
Town Hall of Stains in the 1920s. -
Detail of the pediment of the Château de La Motte.
Notable people
[edit]- Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe, footballer
- Mohamed-Ali Cho, footballer
Twin towns — Sister cities
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Saalfeld ( Germany ) since May 4, 1964: Twinning for joint projects of peace and collaboration between the German and French people.
Cheshunt ( United Kingdom ) since 1965: Traditional twinning
Luco dei Marsi ( Italy ) since December 15, 2000: Multilateral collaboration in the fields of sport, tourism, environment and development in the field of NICTs, allowing the enhancement of reciprocal cultural wealth.
Am'ari ( Palestine ) since January 15, 1999: Multilateral cooperation with the Palestinian refugee camp of Am'ari in the West Bank, in solidarity with the peace forces in the region.
Mengueme ( Cameroon ) since 2000: Cooperation agreement on health, education, sanitation, rural electrification, ecosystem preservation, development of agriculture, livestock but also culture, sport and tourism.
Figuig ( Morocco ) since October 18, 2002: Cooperation agreement on youth citizenship, cultural exchanges, health and prevention, local development, town planning and the environment.
See also
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[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Stains, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Les établissements scolaires." Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis. Retrieved on September 8, 2016.
- ^ "Château de la Motte - Patrimoine - Atlas de l'architecture et du patrimoine" [Atlas of the heritage of Seine-Saint-Denis: Castle of La Motte]. patrimoine.seinesaintdenis.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ "Stains, ville du monde" [Stains, city of the world] (in French). Retrieved June 9, 2020.
External links
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