Villers-lès-Nancy

Villers-lès-Nancy
Commune
Villers-lès-Nancy
Location within Grand Est region Villers-lès-Nancy
Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 6°09′17″E / 48.6731°N 6.1547°E / 48.6731; 6.1547Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 6°09′17″E / 48.6731°N 6.1547°E / 48.6731; 6.1547
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Nancy
Canton	Laxou
Intercommunality	Métropole du Grand Nancy
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	François Werner
Area¹	9.95 km² (3.84 sq mi)
Population (2014)²	14,224
• Density	1,400/km² (3,700/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (GMT +1) (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	54578 /54600
Elevation	224–381 m (735–1,250 ft) (avg. 285 m or 935 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ² Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villers-lès-Nancy is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

Inhabitants are known as Villarois.

Geography

Villers-lès-Nancy is a suburb on the southwest of Nancy. The commune goes from Nancy to the Haye forest.

It is composed of three quarters :

the Mairie-Placieux quarter, which is the closest to Nancy,
the Botanique-Village quarter, which goes from the Jardin botanique du Montet to the Brabois plateau,
the Clairlieu quarter, in a large opening of the Haye forest, beyond the A 33.

The neighbourhood communes of the Grand Nancy are : Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.

Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest celebration that occurs at the end of August/beginning of September
Faites du solaire, another feast that occurs each year in October

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