Bezons, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France

Bezons, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France

Bezons, whose inhabitants are called the Bezonnais, is a French commune in the Paris basin, located in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region. It is located on the right bank of the Seine, bordering two departments: Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines. It is the 312th most populated city in France. According to the regional plan for inter-communal cooperation, Bezons must integrate a community of agglomerations in the Yvelines department, while remaining in the Val d'Oise department, since1 January 2016. It finally joined the Saint-Germain Boucles de Seine agglomeration community. Bezons is located on the right bank of the Seine, ten kilometres northwest of the gates of Paris. The commune is on the borders of three departments, which are: Val-d'Oise, Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines, as well as being close to the centres of La Défense (3.5 km away) and Cergy-Pontoise.

Climate

Its climate is a degraded oceanic one, and due to the location of the commune within the Paris conurbation, this causes a very slight rise in temperature of one or two degrees depending on the climatic conditions compared to the rural areas of Ile-de-France. The average annual temperature is 11°C, the coldest month is January with +4°C; the hottest months are July and August with an average annual sunshine duration of 1,719 hours in the south of the Val-d'Oise.

Hydrography

Its territory is bordered by the Seine (along its entire southern length), which also forms its municipal boundary with Colombes and Nanterre. The Marly branch of the Seine originates in the territory of Bezons, which is supplied with water by the Méry-sur-Oise treatment plant. The drinking water is of very good bacteriological quality, containing little nitrate, having little fluoride and becoming relatively low in calcium since the installation of nanofiltration in 1999 at the distribution plant. The water distributed is of river origin, as it is filtered from the Oise River.

Health

The two clinics in Bezons are private, with two re-attachment services to two hospitals, one in Colombes and the other in Argenteuil.

• Clinique Newco: convalescent home and post-operative care

Polyclinique du Plateau: all specialities, dialysis and hand surgery.

HERITAGE

Places and monuments

• The church of Saint-Martin Consecrated in 1507, the old church of Bezons was severely damaged several times, especially during the flood of 1740 and during the war of 1870. Ruined, it was destroyed in 1965. A new church was built on the site of a wooden chapel which the faithful had used since the end of the 1930s, located at the crossroads of the rue Édouard-Vaillant and the route de Pontoise, known as de la Grâce-de-Dieu.

• The bust of the Republic: This statue was removed by the German army during the Occupation for the purpose of metal recovery. It was on 30 July 1905 that Maurice Berteaux (1852-1911), the deputy for Seine-et-Oise, inaugurated the statue.

• The commemorative panel for the war dead It is located in the entrance of the town hall and is one of the only ones in France to have the inscription "War to war and hate to hate".

Green spaces

The city offers five green spaces and public gardens, despite the fact that Bezons is a very urban city. Moreover, these spaces were seven, but two squares are removed by real estate operations.

• The Chemin de Halage The Chemin de Halage: this is a footpath which extends from the Pont de Bezons to the Pont SNCF, located on the right bank of the Seine.

• The Albert-Bettencourt Park Albert-Bettencourt Park: named after a former mayor of the town, it is located on rue Francis-de-Pressensé. As part of the ZAC cœur de ville, the park will be redeveloped. It will be completed by planted paths as well as pedestrian and cycling paths.

• Sacco-Vanzetti Park - (Rue de la Berthie / Rue Prudence)

• The Republic Square

• Grenouillière Square: Residence des Impressionnistes