La Roche-Guyon
La Roche-Guyon | |
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Coordinates: 49°04′56″N 1°37′49″E / 49.0822°N 1.6303°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Val-d'Oise |
Arrondissement | Pontoise |
Canton | Vauréal |
Intercommunality | Vexin Val de Seine |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Capucine Faivre[1] |
Area 1 | 4.61 km2 (1.78 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 448 |
• Density | 97/km2 (250/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 95523 /95780 |
Elevation | 13–143 m (43–469 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
La Roche-Guyon (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃ ɡɥijɔ̃] ⓘ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.[3] It is located in the Vexin regional nature park .
The commune grew around the Château de La Roche-Guyon, upon which historically it depended for its existence. The commune's population in 2019 was 479.
Geography
It is located approximately 58 km from Paris and 9 km from Giverny
Château de La Roche-Guyon
The present Château de La Roche-Guyon
James V of Scotland and his bride Madeleine of Valois stayed for two nights in March 1537.[7] The Château came to the Liancourt family with the marriage of Roger de Plessis-Liancourt to the heiress Marie de La Roche; he was a childhood companion of Louis XIII, first gentleman of the Chambre du Roi, and was made a duke in 1643. He and his wife made great changes to the château-bas, opening windows in its structure and laying out the terrace to the east, partly cut into the mountain's steep slope.
The domain of La Roche-Guyon came to the
When
La Roche Guyon was the birthplace of
In
located here.In 1962, the castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of the
After 1990, restorations and archaeological surveys undertaken by the Conservatoire régional des Monuments historiques revealed new additions to the documentary history of La Roche-Guyon, undertaken in the 19th century by Hippolyte Alexandre and Emile Rousse.
In early 1960, French technocrats had the idea for a new administrative capital, to replace Paris as capital with a French "
The castle is opened to the public and several events take place there (Fête des Fleurs, Salon du Vin etc.)
The village is protected on its architecture (as La Roche-Guyon is locate in the Vexin Regional Park)
Several shops contribute to make the village lively with its restaurants, cafés and tea houses.
Points of interest
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- Meulan, traditionally bore the name Guy; La Roche-Guyon signifies the "Rock of Guy"
- Viking marauders who used the Seine as a pathway upriver to Paris(Le Ménestrel du Vexin).
- ^ Suger, Vie de Louis VI, "Au sommet d'un promontoire abrupt, dominant la rive du grand fleuve de Seine, se dresse un château affreux et sans noblesse appelé La Roche. Invisible à sa surface, il se trouve creusé dans une haute roche. L'habile main du constructeur a ménagé sur le penchant de la montagne, en taillant dans la roche, une ample demeure pourvue d'ouvertures rares et misérables."
- ^ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 19.
External links
- Official website (in French)
- Château de la Roche-Guyon: Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)
- " La duchesse d'Enville à la Roche-Guyon"
- History of the castle of the Roche Guyon (French)