Seine Eure urban community - Pont de l'arche medieval fortified town FEDER
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COMMUNAUTE D'AGGLOMERATION SEINE EURE
Pont-de-L'arche is a rural commune in Eure, with 3,507 inhabitants. In addition to its commercial and cultural dynamism, the heart of the city brings together remarkable heritage elements, including in particular the remains of the medieval period, when the city was one of the strongholds of the Seine Valley. The town has managed to keep its medieval character by retaining the structure of the ancient city around its ramparts and ditches. Its heart is crisscrossed by narrow streets, revealing the various remains of the fortified town, displaying old half-timbered houses, but also the Notre-Dame des Arts church. The latter, entirely rebuilt in the 16th century in the flamboyant Gothic style, contains great riches (stained glass windows from the 17th and 20th centuries, stalls from Bonport Abbey, an organ donated by King Henry IV, a baroque high altar from the 17th century). This heritage is preserved and protected as Historic Monuments. Several restoration campaigns have already been carried out, the last having taken place in 2016 and the town has a major multi-year project to restore the Notre-Dame des Arts church worth more than 4 million euros starting in 2018. On the outskirts of the city center, Bonport Abbey is a jewel of medieval art, founded in 1189 by Richard Cur de Lion. The owners of this site classified as a Historic Monument, Mr. and Mrs. DELIMBEUF, open the abbey to the public from April to September, for self-guided or guided tours and in the form of events. The city is integrated into a natural environment conducive to tourist development, notably with excellent access to the transport networks (A13 motorway, nearby train station, public transport network), but also with the immediate proximity of the Eure river and the Seine. The city, labeled a green resort since 2015, today has a dense tourist offer: - the greenway (V41) of the Eure valley, - visiting sites open to the public: the Bonport abbey, the visit to the Marco shoe factory, - water and leisure activities and sports on the banks of the Seine and the Eure, - an accommodation offer (hotel, campsite, guest rooms and motorhomes) - a catering offer in the city center. It is in fact an integral part of the tourist development strategy of the Seine-Eure Agglomeration and will be reinforced by two major projects: - the “La Seine à Vélo” project, which will pass at the foot of the historic center - A project to create a stopover for the river cruise on the Seine. In addition to the developments carried out and to come, activities and tourist offers have been developed. Guided tours are offered all year round. Two discovery trails on paper format were developed by the Seine-Eure Tourist Office in 2010 allowing a first development of this heritage. Current development tools need to be adapted to new development projects and new tourism practices. It is therefore proposed to develop new digital tools for development and tourist information.
Greener, carbon-free Europe / Environment protection and resource efficiency / Development and promotion of public cultural and heritage services