The ''Communauté d'agglomération'' ''Paris-Saclay'' ''(or CPS)'' is an administrative entity in the
Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
. The administrative center is
Orsay
Orsay () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris.
A fortified location of the Chevreuse valley since the 8th centur ...
Plateau de Saclay The Plateau de Saclay, also called Silicon Valley Européenne (in English, European Silicon Valley), is located north of Essonne and south-east of Yvelines, 20 km south of Paris. It is bounded by the valley of the Yvette ('' Vallée de Chevreu ...
(CAPS) and the Communauté d'agglomération Europ'Essonne(E²). Its area is 185.9 km2. Its population was 314,169 in 2018.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
Geography
Location
The ''Communauté d'Agglomération Paris-Saclay'' is located at the north-west of the département of
Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.plateau de Saclay The Plateau de Saclay, also called Silicon Valley Européenne (in English, European Silicon Valley), is located north of Essonne and south-east of Yvelines, 20 km south of Paris. It is bounded by the valley of the Yvette ('' Vallée de Chevreu ...
.
The altitude is between 47m ''(154')'' in
Palaiseau
Palaiseau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Palaiseau is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Palaiseau.
Inhabitants of Palaiseau ar ...
and 172m ''(564')'' in
Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette (, literally ''Gif on Yvette'') is a commune in south-western Ile de France, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Geography
The town is crossed by and named after the river Yvette.
The total area is and is green s ...
.
Communes
The Communauté d'Agglomération Paris-Saclay consists of the following communes:
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Bures-sur-Yvette
Bures-sur-Yvette (, literally ''Bures on Yvette'') is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Geography
Bures-sur-Yvette is located in the Vallée de Chevreuse on the river Yvette, along which the RER line&nb ...
Épinay-sur-Orge
Épinay-sur-Orge (, literally ''Épinay on Orge'') is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
It is situated near Orly Airport some south of Paris on the A6 motorway. Épinay is served by two stations on dif ...
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Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette (, literally ''Gif on Yvette'') is a commune in south-western Ile de France, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Geography
The town is crossed by and named after the river Yvette.
The total area is and is green s ...
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Gometz-le-Châtel
Gometz-le-Châtel () is a commune in the Essonne department of France. It is a southern suburb of Paris, 25 km from the center of Paris.
Geography
This village is near Les Ulis, Bures-sur-Yvette, Gif-sur-Yvette and Gometz-la-Ville, al ...
Linas Linas is a Lithuanian male given name. It is the Lithuanian form of the name Linus, which derives from the Greek for "flax
Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, ''Linum usitatissimum'', in the family Linaceae. It is ...
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Longjumeau
Longjumeau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Inhabitants of Longjumeau are known as ''Longjumellois'' ().
History
Longjumeau Party School
In 1911, Lenin founded the Longjumeau ...
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Marcoussis
Marcoussis () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Marcoussis is the location of the CNR (National Centre of Rugby) where the French national rugby union team prepare for internationa ...
Montlhéry
Montlhéry () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located from Paris.
History
Montlhéry lay on the strategically important road from Paris to Orléans. Under the Merovingians, it was owned by the ...
Orsay
Orsay () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris.
A fortified location of the Chevreuse valley since the 8th centur ...
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Palaiseau
Palaiseau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Palaiseau is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Palaiseau.
Inhabitants of Palaiseau ar ...
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Saclay
Saclay () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It had a population of 3,067 in 2006. It is best known for the large scientific facility CEA Saclay, mostly dealing with nuclear and pa ...
Saulx-les-Chartreux
Saulx-les-Chartreux () is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 20 kilometres from the center of Paris.
History
The name of the city come from a tree: ''Saule'' (willow tree in French). Mon ...
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Les Ulis
Les Ulis () is a commune in the Essonne department located in the southwestern suburbs (banlieue) of Paris, France. It is from the centre of Paris.
Location
Les Ulis is a new town located in the Île-de-France, in the south-west of the P ...
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Vauhallan
Vauhallan () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Inhabitants of Vauhallan are known as ''Vauhallanais''.
See also
*Communes of the Essonne department
The following is a list of the 194 communes of th ...
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Verrières-le-Buisson
Verrières-le-Buisson () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is from the centre of Paris, in the Essonne department just outside the inner ring of the Île-de-France.
The commune borders the river Bièvre.
History
T ...
La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois () is a Communes of France, commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris.
Population
Inhabitants of La Ville-du-Bois are known as ''Urbisylvains'' in French.
Notable ...
Villiers-le-Bâcle
Villiers-le-Bâcle () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Inhabitants of Villiers-le-Bâcle are known as ''Villebaclais''.
The painter Tsugouharu Foujita is buried in the commune's cemetery.
See also
* ...
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Wissous
Wissous () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Paris-Orly Airport is partially located in the commune.
Population
Inhabitants of Wissous are known as ''Wissoussiens''.
History
Wissous appears in ...
History
* At first, the ''syndicat intercommunal du plateau de Saclay'' (SIPS) was founded in 1988.
* The 6 December 1991, it became the ''district du plateau de Saclay'' (DIPS).
* It became a
Communauté de communes
A ''communauté de communes'' (, "community of communes") is a federation of municipalities (communes) in France. It forms a framework within which local tasks are carried out together. It is the least-integrated form of ''intercommunalité'' (in ...
then, in 2002, a
Communauté d'agglomération
An agglomeration community (french: communauté d'agglomération) is a government structure in France, created by the Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of intercommunality, less integrated than a métropole or a communauté urb ...
Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.Buc, Châteaufort,
Jouy-en-Josas
Jouy-en-Josas () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris, from the center of Paris.
Jouy-en-Josas is home to the main campus of HEC ...
and
Les Loges-en-Josas
Les Loges-en-Josas () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yvelines department
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designe ...
in
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.Gometz-le-Châtel
Gometz-le-Châtel () is a commune in the Essonne department of France. It is a southern suburb of Paris, 25 km from the center of Paris.
Geography
This village is near Les Ulis, Bures-sur-Yvette, Gif-sur-Yvette and Gometz-la-Ville, al ...
RER B
RER B is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its Île-de-France suburbs. The RER B line crosses the region from no ...
;
*
Massy-Palaiseau station Massy-Palaiseau station (French: ''Gare de Massy-Palaiseau'') is an RER station, in the city of Massy, with a junction of the RER B (B4 section) and RER C (C2 and C8 sections). Also, Paris Metro Line 18 of Grand Paris Express will stop here in the ...
,
RER B
RER B is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its Île-de-France suburbs. The RER B line crosses the region from no ...
RER C
RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south.
The li ...
RER B
RER B is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its Île-de-France suburbs. The RER B line crosses the region from no ...
;
And more in the
Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions (''grandes écoles'') and ...
and
Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...
RER C
RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south.
The li ...
and
Transilien
Transilien () is the brand name given to the commuter rail network serving Île-de-France, the region surrounding and including the city of Paris. The network consists of eight lines: H, J, K, L, N, U, P and R, each operated by SNCF, th ...
Versailles-Chantiers station
Versailles–Chantiers is the principal railway station serving the city of Versailles. It provides national service on the Paris–Brest railway line, as well as regional, and commuter (Paris) rail service.
See also
* List of stations of th ...
,
RER C
RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south.
The li ...
and
TER
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
* Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...
services.
Rail
The Paris-Saclay community has the
LGV Atlantique
The LGV Atlantique (French: ''Ligne à Grande Vitesse''; English: Atlantic high-speed line) is a high-speed rail line running from Paris (Gare Montparnasse) to Western France. It opened in 1989–1990 and comprises two stations: Massy TGV statio ...
Massy TGV station
Massy TGV is a TGV railway station in Massy, France. Massy TGV is a new station, located in Île-de-France, was built for the LGV Atlantique. Thus certain trains serve at Montparnasse Station and this station simultaneously, although it is not pe ...
.
Buses
Transports in the Paris-Saclay community is managed by ''Paris-Saclay Mobilités'' and provided by
Transdev
Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a French-based international private-sector company which operates public transport. It has operations in 17 countries and territories as of November 2020.
History
The group was formed by the merger of ...
and
Keolis
Keolis is a multinational transportation company that operates public transport systems. The company manages bus, rapid transit, tram, coach networks, rental bikes, car parks, water taxi, cable car, trolleybus and funicular services.
...
.
Long-distance bus service is provided by
BlaBlaBus
BlaBlaCar Bus, formerly BlaBlaBus, Ouibus or iDBUS, operates coach services in Europe. Currently, BlaBlaCar Bus serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Genoa, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Char ...
TGV
The TGV (french: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"; previously french: TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse, label=none) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 19 ...
station.
References
External links
Official Website
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Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions (''grandes écoles'') and ...
Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions (''grandes écoles'') and ...