Gisors () is a commune in the French department of

Eure Eure () is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.Normandy, France. It is located northwest from the centre of Paris. Gisors, together with the neighbouring communes of

Trie-Château Trie-Château () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Villers-sur-Trie was merged into Trie-Château.Trie-la-Ville Trie-la-Ville () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following interc ...

, form an urban area of 13,915 inhabitants (2018). This urban area is a satellite town of Paris.

Geography

Gisors is located in the Vexin normand region of Normandy, at the confluence of the rivers Epte, Troesne and

Réveillon A ''réveillon'' () is a long dinner held in the evening preceding Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Its name descends from the word ''réveil'' (meaning "waking"), because participation involves staying awake until morning, as the meal finishes ...

Population

Transport

The Gisors station is the terminus of a Transilien suburban rail service from the Paris Saint-Lazare station, and of a TER Normandie local service to Serqueux.

Sights

Château de Gisors The Château de Gisors is a castle in the town of Gisors in the department of Eure, France. The castle was a key fortress of the Dukes of Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. It was intended to defend the Anglo-Norman Vexin territory from the ...

, built in the 11th century. *The Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais parish church is an outstanding monument fusing

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

and Renaissance architecture. *A field near Gisors was the site of the Cutting of the elm, a medieval diplomatic incident. *

Château de Boisgeloup Château de Boisgeloup is an 18th-century château near Gisors in Eure, Normandy, formerly owned by Pablo Picasso and now a private art gallery run by his grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and gallerist Almine Rech. Picasso bought Château de Boisgel ...

, former home and atelier of Pablo Picasso. Image:Chateau-de-Gisors.jpg, Motte and Castle Image:Gisors tour chateau.JPG, Castle of Gisors Image:Grosse tour Gisors001.jpg, The so-called ''Grosse Tour'' ("Big Tower") of the St-Gervais-St-Protais church was built between 1542 and 1590.