Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes fromMedieval LatinVitriacum, and before thatVictoriacum, meaning "estate of Victorius", aGallo-Roman landowner. In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Vitry-sur-Seine (meaning "Vitry uponSeine"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Vitry.
For some years, Vitry-sur-Seine operated a cultural policy of bringing art to all. For this reason, the commune contains over 100 contemporary sculptures, notably in establishments of public education (schools, secondary schools and High Schools).
Vitry hosts theMusée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art). Opened on 18 November 2005, this museum offers in addition to the workshops of plastic arts, an auditorium and a cinema for art and experimental film.
Vitry is one of the cities that contributed to the development of theHip hop movement in France. Consequentially,urban art has a very important place in the city
The city can be separated into three distinct parts: the center containing numerouscités HLM (Housing projects), peripheral neighborhoods belonging to the middle class, and a large industrial area along theSeine river.
In 2017 the population of the city was estimated at 93,500 inhabitants. Vitry-sur-Seine is the 46th most populated city ofFrance and the seventh ofÎle-de-France. The rate of unemployment is 26.5%, while national average is under 10%.
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such aspieds-noirs inNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
As of circa 1998Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry had a combined Asian population of 3,600. That year about 250 Asians from those communes worked in the13th arrondissement of Paris, and the overall demographics of Ivry and Vitry Asians were similar to those in the 13th arrondissement.[7]
^Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor).The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas.Hong Kong University Press, 1 January 1998.ISBN9622094465, 9789622094468. CITED: p.197.
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^"Élémentaires." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^"Ecoles." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
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