Luzarches

Luzarches
Commune
The church of St-Côme-St-Damien, in Luzarches
Coat of arms
Luzarches Location within Île-de-France region Luzarches
Coordinates: 49°06′49″N 2°25′24″E / 49.1136°N 2.4233°E / 49.1136; 2.4233Coordinates: 49°06′49″N 2°25′24″E / 49.1136°N 2.4233°E / 49.1136; 2.4233
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Fosses
Intercommunality	Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Patrick decodin
Area1	20.49 km2 (7.91 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	4,141
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	95352 /95270
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Luzarches is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Just south of the town is a monument on the D316, which commemorates the closest distance to Paris that German units reached during the advance westwards in September 1914.^[1]

Twin towns

• Montrose, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom has been twinned with Luzarches since 1994.

References

External links

• INSEE
• Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (in French)
• Site officiel de Luzarches entre ville et village (in French)
• Le Twitter de Luzarches (in French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (in French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (in English)

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