Bondy: history and sights
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Did you know?
Its name is thought to come from Bonitius, a Gallo-Roman owner of the cleared lands of the plain; the village's oldest mention, as Bonisiaca, appears in Hermentrude's will in the 7th century.
Anecdote
Bondy was long famous for its forest, a haunt of brigands; André Malraux spent part of his childhood here, above the family grocery.
Around Bondy
- Canal de l'Ourcq, 850 m away — Commissioned by Napoleon I to supply Paris with water and opened to navigation in 1822, it crosses the town from east to west.
- Église Saint-Pierre, 250 m away — Church of the old centre, near which 2005 excavations revealed a necropolis of about a thousand burials, from the late Roman Empire to the 14th century.
- Pont de Bondy, 1000 m away — A bridge over the Canal de l'Ourcq, one of the town's emblematic places.