Travel Guide Issy-Les-Moulineaux

Issy-les-Moulineaux has a complex geography, which is built between coteaux and banks of the Seine. At the end of the seventeenth century, the first religious congregations, including the seminary Saint-Sulpice, appeared in Issy. The vineyards are cultivated and the village becomes the privileged holiday of the nobility in the seventeenth century (Marguerite de Valois, the first wife of Henri IV, lived there). After the Revolution, the city gradually loses its rural character. Then, in the late nineteenth century and during the twentieth century, the industrialization period of the city began. In 1908, Henry Farman made the first closed-circuit air kilometer, which is worth Issy being named "cradle of aviation". Getting closer to the 70,000 inhabitants, a constant figure, Issy is a city profoundly changed since the 1950 s, moving from a working town to a tertiary and residential city. With its neighbor Boulogne-Billancourt, it is one of the media and telecommunications poles in Île-de-France. Contrasted, Issy is now plebiscite by young executive families. Sometimes a little impersonal, the city has some pretty places, and good restaurants.