5 Sights in Poissy, France (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Poissy, France! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Poissy. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Poissy1. Vieux Pont de Poissy
The Old Poissy Bridge, also known as the Old Poissy Bridge, is a masonry arched bridge that once crossed the main branch of the Seine over a length of four hundred meters and stretched for nearly a kilometer between Poissy and Carrières-sous-Poissy in the Yvelines department of France. This bridge, of which only six arches remain visible, is located 330 m downstream from the new Poissy bridge and 570 m upstream from the bridge on the island of Migneaux. It was an important commercial communication route in the region from the Middle Ages due to the passage of cattle from the Vexin and Normandy going to the livestock market in Poissy by the road to Rouen, the surrounding port activity, fishing and milling on its arches. It remained a strategic location during the wars until its destruction in 1944. It is the subject of a project to build a footbridge over its remains by 2024.
2. Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
3. Collégiale Notre-Dame
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame de Poissy is a Roman Catholic parish church in Poissy, Yvelines, France. It was founded by King Robert the Pious around 1016, but of the eleventh-century church, only the western bell tower-porch remains. Indeed, the collegiate church was rebuilt from the beginning of the twelfth century, and in particular between 1130 and 1160, in the late Romanesque style, then later in the early Gothic style, which manifests itself in the eastern parts. The future Louis IX was baptized there, a few days after his birth in Poissy, on April 25, 1214. This event made the church famous, and the baptismal font of this period is still preserved there. Throughout the Ancien Régime, a chapter of canons had its seat in the church, and for a long time ensured the parish service. It was dissolved during the Revolution, and the church was closed to worship, only to reopen again in 1802.
4. Abbaye (ancienne)
The priory of Saint-Louis de Poissy is a former Dominican monastery founded in Poissy (Yvelines) in the fourteenth century, dependent on the diocese of Chartres and the province of Sens from 1304 to 1622 and which was almost totally destroyed following the French Revolution. Listed as a historical monument in 1933, only the gatehouse remains, which now houses the Toy Museum.
5. Maison de Fer
The iron house or metal house of Poissy and sometimes villa of La Maladrerie, is one of the ten iron houses listed in France and built according to Joseph Danly's stamped sheet metal process. Built in 1896, it was occupied until the 1980s. Initially located near the route of the A14 motorway, it was abandoned following an expropriation and suffered significant damage before being knocked down by the storm of 1999. It was dismantled in 2016 by the technical services of the city of Poissy and then reassembled in Meissonier Park to install an architecture and heritage interpretation centre within it, inaugurated on 19 September 2020.
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