Limetz-Villez

Limetz-Villez is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 24 km in the North-West of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The name of “Limetz” would come from Latin, files , border. A second assumption would tend to say that Limetz would come from the word " mas" compared to the residence Gallo Roman found on the territory of the commune, largest if it is not one of largest of the area.

But the continuous debate…

The inhabitants are usually called Carcaïens (name of a Roman general Carcaïus ).

Geography

It is a rural district located at the confluence of the Seine and Epte, in an alluvial plain.

The commune is bordering on Gommecourt in the east, Giverny and Holy-Genevieve-the-Gasny in north and on Bennecourt in south-east. She is separated from Port-Villez and Jeufosse by the the Seine in the west.

To the variation of the main roads, it is connected to the common neighbors by secondary roads.

History

Site occupied as of prehistory (Neolithic site).
Gallo-Roman Presence, a villa of Ier century a. J. - C. was discovered there with beginning of the year 80 explored during ten years approximately the site of great importance was " stopped " by lack of means.

It would seem that the excavated site is only one small piece of the total site…? It is only one assumption based on a personal discovery. In fact bases of various walls at the edge of Epte…

Demography

Administration

Economy

Agriculture
Factory Isobox (polystyrene packing)

Culture

Saint-Sulpice Church: church of XIIe century, altered in XVIe.
the painter Gabriel Girodon, Grand Prix of Rome in 1912, resided in the commune. It made gift of a Piéta (painting on fabric) with the church of the village.

To deepen

Common of Yvelines

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