Cergy-le-Haut: history and sights
Served by: RER A, Transilien L.
Did you know?
Cergy, Cirgiacum in 1144, probably comes from a Gallo-Roman personal name (Servius or Cervius). In 1120 Louis VI gave the territory to the Abbey of Saint-Denis, lord of the place until 1793.
Anecdote
Cergy's Saint-Christophe church, listed in 1913, combines a Romanesque bell tower, an early 13th-century Gothic choir and a tall Renaissance stone spire about 40 metres high.
Around Cergy-le-Haut
- Place des Trois Gares, 100 m away — The square in the centre of Cergy-le-Haut onto which the station opens, with the bus station.
- Le Fil d'Ariane, 100 m away — A pedestrian path of about 10 km crossing Cergy and telling four decades of the new town's urban planning, ending at Cergy-le-Haut station.
- L'Axe majeur, 950 m away — The new town's monumental promenade, conceived by Dani Karavan, in the heart of Cergy-Saint-Christophe.