[72], With the economic changes that have affected the city, the Professions and Socio-professional categories (PCS) have changed dramatically since the 1980s: between 1982 and 1999, the number of workers has declined by about a third (−10,593), their share of the active labour force was 16% in 1982 and 12.5% in 1999. Services depart five times a day, and operate every day. Le Havre is located in the Academy of Rouen. The department manages 16 colleges and the region of Normandymanages 9 schools. There are several monastic establishments (Carmel of the Transfiguration, Franciscan Monastery, Little Sisters of the Poor, etc.). The diocese was created from part of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Rouen to the west of a line joining Norville to Sassetot-le-Mauconduit. The bus station, certified NF since 2005, has been refurbished. The film Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki received two prizes at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and also the Louis Delluc Prize. In 2011, 715,279 passengers passed through the port of Le Havre[119] and there were 95 visits by cruise ships carrying 185,000 passengers. The new prison for Le Havre was completed in 2010 at Saint-Aubin-Routot east of the Le Havre agglomeration. Then came the school of Fauvism in which many artists did their training at Le Havre: Othon Friesz (1879–1949), Henri de Saint-Delis (1876–1958), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), Georges Braque (1882–1963), Raymond Lecourt (1882–1946), Albert Copieux (1885–1956), who followed the course of the School of Fine Arts of Le Havre in the time of Charles Lhuillier. The city has 99 sports facilities including 46 gymnasiums, 23 sports fields, and 5 swimming pools. On the website or app, enter your departure and arrival points and your date of travel, sift through the profiles of drivers who’ve posted pre-planned drives and find one whose timing and preferences match yours. L’esprit comptoir se concrétise en 2007 avec l’ouverture de la boutique de Rouen, puis celle du Havre en 2011 . Horaires de Rouen Rive Droite à Le Havre - le 25 novembre 2020 à 00h20 . There are several firms in the aerospace industry: SAFRAN Nacelles, a supplier to Airbus, Boeing and other commercial air-framers, making jet engine nacelles and thrust reversers, is located in Harfleur and employs 1,200 people from the Le Havre area. Finally, Le Havre is the godmother city for BPC Mistral. [verification needed] There is also the Flying club Jean Maridor at the airport. Rome2rio is a door-to-door travel information and booking engine, helping you get to and from any location in the world. There are many growth factors in the tourist industry: blue flag rating, World Heritage status from UNESCO, the label French Towns and Lands of Art and History, cruise ship development, a policy of value-creation from heritage, and the City of the Sea project. Several politicians have spent part of their lives in the city: Jules Lecesne (1818–1878), Jules Siegfried (1837–1922), and Félix Faure (1841–1899) were elected as municipal councillors and MPs. [132] The city has long been home to many service companies whose activity is related to port operations: primarily the ship-owning companies and also the marine insurance companies. The Army's ST small tugs ranged generally from about 55 ft to 92 ft in length as opposed to the larger seagoing LT tugs. Le Havre is a board game about the development of the town of Le Havre. Rouen to Le Havre route planner Get the best route from Rouen to Le Havre with ViaMichelin. This is why the accessibility of the city has been improved with the harbour highway A131 (E05) which links Le Havre to the A13 autoroute over Tancarville Bridge. It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, 120 km from the sea. This is the restaurant district and the fish market. [28] To achieve this solar panels have been installed on several municipal buildings (city hall, hanging gardens). [120] 75 regular shipping lines serve 500 ports around the world. [130] The machines are designed for Offshore wind power in Brittany, the UK, and Normandy. The museum houses mineralogy, zoology, ornithology, palaeontology and prehistory departments as well as 8,000 early 19th-century paintings from the collection of local naturalist and traveller Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846). The journey takes approximately 1h 10m. It is revitalizing areas neglected by industrial and port activities by developing tertiary activities. The destruction of the museum was so intense, that all the catalogues, lists of donations, lists of purchases and other archives prevented even a precise inventory of all that was lost."[147]. [30] It is possible to rent bicycles through agencies of the Océane bus or from the town hall (Vel-H)[36] which has them on hand. The name of the town was attested in 1489, even before it was founded by François I in the form le Hable de Grace then Ville de Grace in 1516, two years before its official founding. The transport sector is the largest economic sector in Le Havre with 15.5% of employment. Under the name Port de Brume Le Havre is the setting for three other novels by this author: Cerfs-volants (Kites), L'Aventure de Noël (The Adventure at Christmas), and La Queue à la pègre (Queue to the underworld). Thousands of references are available in specialized libraries in the Higher School of Art, the Museum of André Malraux, and the Natural History Museum. [104] The Havraise Rowing Society has trained many rowers to a high level as Thierry Renault. Le 1er août 1839 loi résilliant la concession de la ligne Paris - Rouen - Le Havre - Dieppe. The SPI (Axis of Science for the Engineer) is expected to reopen in 2012 in a new building in the Eure district. COVID-19 Travel restrictions may apply in France. The marina can host deepwater vessels around the clock in any weather. 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[18], The absolute speed record for wind at Le Havre – Cap de la Heve was recorded on 16 October 1987 at 180 kilometres per hour (112 miles per hour).[18]. Its training centre is well-reputed for having trained a number of international French players, including Vikash Dhorasoo, Julien Faubert, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Lassana Diarra, and Steve Mandanda. At the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, the area around the railway station has undergone a major transformation. [124] Finally, there is a small fishing port in the Saint-François district and a Hawker centre. After the 1944 bombings the firm of Auguste Perret began to rebuild the city in concrete. [73] The population of workers is concentrated in the southern suburbs close to the port and the industrial zone.