5 Sights in Poissy, France (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Poissy, France. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 5 sights are available in Poissy, France.

Sightseeing Tours in Poissy

1. Collégiale Notre-Dame

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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 11th-century church, only the western bell tower-porch remains. In fact, the collegiate church was rebuilt from the beginning of the twelfth century, and especially between 1130 and 1160, in the late Romanesque style, and later in the early Gothic style, which is evident in the eastern parts. The future Louis IX was baptized there, a few days after his birth in Poissy, on 25 April 1214. This event made the church famous, and the baptismal font from that time is still preserved there. Throughout the Ancien Régime, a chapter of canons had its seat in the church, and for a long time provided the parish service. It was dissolved during the Revolution, and the church was closed to worship, only to reopen in 1802.

Wikipedia: Collégiale Notre-Dame de Poissy (FR)

2. Pilier du Vieux Pont de Poissy

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The old bridge of Poissy, also called the old bridge of Poissy, is a masonry arched bridge that once crossed the main branch of the Seine over a length of four hundred meters and extended for nearly a kilometer between Poissy and Carrières-sous-Poissy in the Yvelines department in France. This bridge, of which only six arches remain visible, is located 330 m downstream of the new Poissy bridge and 570 m upstream of the Ile de Migneaux bridge. It has been an important commercial communication route in the region since the Middle Ages due to the passage of cattle from the Vexin and Normandy going to the cattle market of 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.

Wikipedia: Ancien pont de Poissy (FR)

3. Maison de Fer

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Maison de Fer

The iron house or metal house of Poissy and sometimes villa of the Maladrerie, is one of the ten iron houses listed in France and built according to the process of stamped sheets of Joseph Danly. Built in 1896, it was occupied until the 1980s. Initially located near the A14 motorway, it was abandoned following 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.

Wikipedia: Maison de Fer (Poissy) (FR)

4. Abbaye (ancienne)

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Abbaye (ancienne)

The priory of Saint-Louis de Poissy is a former Dominican monastery founded in Poissy (Yvelines) in the 14th 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, all that remains is the gatehouse, which now houses the Toy Museum.

Wikipedia: Prieuré Saint-Louis de Poissy (FR)

5. Villa Savoye

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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.

Wikipedia: Villa Savoye (EN), Website

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