This is Cergy !!!

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I am digging deep again as my latest posts doing updates on those early towns of our lives in our belle France. This is particularily fond as not only visit but I worked my first job nearby Cergy St Christophe (see post), and my dear late wife Martine took it as her route to work in Roissy CDG airport. So sit back and come along with me in some nice memories of me and my family in an off the beaten path town of
Cergy you might as well visit to be different ! Therefore, here is my take on this is Cergy !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

In my road warrior trails, I have been to many places, and some are not on the tourist trail and nowhere in any travel book, but they are worth it for the real local experience and some facts about my belle
France to enrich your understanding of why France is the most visited country in the world according to the official UN-WTO. I like to talk a bit today about Cergy in the department 95 of Val-d’Oise in the région of Île-de-France. This town is an agglomeration of several villages numbering about 13 , I will do this introduction post on my black and white series, no pictures. Cergy is located on the right bank of the
Oise river on the limits south of the park of the  Vexin français (see post) at about 36 km from Paris, 32 km from Versailles ,and 490 km from my current home. It is the principal city in the metro area of Cergy-Pontoise. It is cross by the autoroute A15 towards Paris or Rouen, and cut on the La Francilienne N104 towards Roissy CDG airport, Versailles on the N186 etc.  The A15  ends at sortie or exit 9 in the district of Grand Centre between the wonderful and favorite shopping center of the  Trois-Fontaines (see post)  in the plains of  Saint-Martin in Pontoise. However, the road continues without interruptions as the N14 and later the D14  by sortie or exit 13, and continues on as the scenic route to Rouen in Normandy; very nice indeed. The wonderful boulevard du Port takes you to Pontoise and Cergy-Village as well as the very nice
Port-Cergy; the D915 takes you as far as Dieppe in Normandy.  For public transports, Cergy is at the end of the line RER A ending at Cergy-le-Haut  and passing by Cergy-Préfecture and Cergy-Saint-Christophe (my first job site was here in France see post). The train stations of Cergy-Préfecture and Cergy-le-Haut have exchange poles to take you to several towns and bus depot such as well the intercity long distance buses even to Roissy CDG airport, which my dear late wife Martine took to work.

My dear late wife, Martine , used to worked for about 9 years at Roissy CDG airport in cargo area for
 DHL Global Forwarding at 27 Rue de la Belle Borne,in cargo zone 7, in the limits of the town of
Tremblay en France, and she came by bus changing here at Cergy. The bus was the 95-18, Cergy Préfecture to Zone Technique . Better than the trains!  As DHL was a memorable nice job for my wife and lots of help on her passing I will put their webpage here as a thank you: https://www.dhl.com/fr-en/home/global-forwarding.html

Being part of a new city or nouvelle villes of France , the history is surprisingly very short.  A bit of history I like; tells you a bit that the current town of Cergy is the union of several villages. Cergy  was first called Cergiacum in 1069 and Sergy in 1731,then other villages were Gency called Gentiacum in 1072, Menandon called Monlandon in 1135, Les Veaurois called Vaulx-Rouez in 1528, Le Brûloir, Ham was annexed to Eragny sur Oise in 1687, then back to Cergy after the French revolution, and finally, Les Clobilles. The metro area has 13 villages/towns such as Cergy ,(Cergy Saint Christophe), Boisement, Courdimanche , Eragny, Jouy-le-Moutier, Maurecourt, Menucourt, Neuville-sur-Oise, Osny, Pontoise, Puiseux-Pontoise , Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône (sad memory crematorium of my Mom Gladys is here), and Vauréal, The town of Cergy-Pontoise was the first to be built in 1969. The area City/Town Hall is at 3, Place Olympe-de-Gouges.

Things to see at Cergy ; me think are: The shopping center or centre commercial les 4 Fontaines right off the A15 road were a favorite for the grocery shopping at Auchan, the car rental Hertz by the Esso gas station (great deals to Spain! ), FNAC, Armand Thierry fashions,and the Micromania video games store. As we took the road warrior theme seriously from wherever we live lol! The official 3Fontaine mall:  https://www.3fontaines.com/ The Saint Christophe Church at rue de Neuville, as Cergy was elevated to a parish in 1120, the monks of the priery of the abbey of Saint Denis built the first Church in the Roman style that today left only the belltower until the second level (3rd US) , the transept, and some chapters. From early 18C, the gothic choir was done to replace the roman one. This choir with the collateral chapels represent the principal elements of the Church today. The lateral Chapels of the organ and the sacristy were added in the 14C. Today, only is left the fortified tower and a pigeon tower; the south gate entrance to the Church once closed has recently been open and renovated . The pierre-Fouret also known as the menhir de Gency is a megalith stone in the village of Gency, rue de Vauréal,in the garden of the a retirement home today. Others are the  Axe majeur,(see post) in the district of the Axe Majeur/Horloge done in a sculptural and garden style monuments from 1980. By 1985 ,Ricardo Bofill did a semicircular space around the original point of the Axe. It has great views of Paris; very relaxing place we came here often. The Château de Gency  located on 96 rue de Vauréal or road D922 near the village of Gency dominating the Oise river descending from one side of the road to the road chemin de halage with apple trees and cow pastures. The park has 5 hectares of space on a miniature Buttes-Chaumont of Paris look done during the Second Empire (Napoleon III ) period. The place full of history was built in 1860, today the castle of  Gency  is a place for receptions not open to the public. The other is the Port Cergy on the Oise river marina with yachts and nice contemporary housing and gardens given to the canals. It has a nice pleasure boat marina. A great entertainment place came here often for lunch or happy hour/after work/apéro when worked nearby in Cergy St Christophe and even took the family here for lunches on Saturdays. The Port Cergy and its Marina at 6, Quai de la Tourelle-Quartier Bords d’Oise neighborhood,It is the first marina of Île-de-France , a contemporary creation using traditional and regionalist architectural references: roofs at the old, slates, skylights, balconies,  lumberries ,  bellings etc. Neighborhood at the same time touristy and residential housing, it enjoys its architecture and its animation of a truly seaside atmosphere. Our favorites there were Hippopotamus, and the La Créperie du Port (English style pub).The
official Port Cergy: https://portcergy.com/

The city of Cergy on its heritage: https://www.cergy.fr/notre-ville/lieux-cles/culture-patrimoine/lieux-remarquables/

The Cergy-Pontoise tourist office on Cergy: https://www.ot-cergypontoise.fr/en/the-cergy-pontoise-agglomeration/cergy/

The Val d’Oise dept 95 tourist office on things to see: https://www.valdoise-tourisme.com/les-incontournables/cergy-pontoise/

There you go folks, something for us to remember forever and you to try out,its worth the detour me think. The always memorable Cergy.  Again, hope you enjoy this post on this is Cergy !!! as I .

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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