Discovering the haut-de-seine

Nanterre, head city of the Haut-de-Seine, is a university town, claims its vocation to be a regional city.

At Paris gates, bordered by the Seine river on a side and La Defense on the other side, its geographical situation makes it a crossroads between Paris and the West of Ile-de-France.

Its population (more than 86.000 inhabitants) is spreading on a territory registered in a vast quadrilateral of 1.220 hectares.

The destiny of the town of Boulogne-Billancourt merges with that of the great industrial adventures of the XX century: past city of the laundries, then engines, car industry, aéronautics, cinema, architecture it is today the stylish city for services and communication technologies.

Rueil-Malmaison, imperial city where lived Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais is 8 km from Paris in a green environment.

Very close to the country of the Impressionists, Rueil also shelters the Chateau de Malmaison, residence of the Emperor and the Empress.

In a loop of the Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, this "village" at Paris gates, conceals many old treasures as innovating projects.