Le canton de Vaulx-en-Velin est une ancienne division administrative française, située dans le département du Rhône en région Rhône-Alpes.
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The École nationale des travaux publics de l'État or ENTPE is an engineering school part of the French Grandes Écoles founded in 1954 in Paris by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and located since 1976 in Lyon Metropolitan Area. The main vocation of ENTPE is to train engineers who will serve as technical managers within the French civil service into the State Public Works Engineering Corps or "Ingénieurs des Travaux Publics de l'Etat", even though nowadays half of the students are intended for the private sector, in particular in large French companies in the construction or transport sectors.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Vaulx-en-Velin, Metropolis of Lyon, eastern France, standing on Place de la Nation.
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Vaulx-en-Velinlɛ̃] ) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern France. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is located to its northeast, on the river Rhône.
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On 16 December 2022, a fire ravaged a residential building at 12 chemin des Barques in Vaulx-en-Velin, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It resulted in killing 10 people, including five children, and injured 14.
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Mini World Lyon is an animated miniature park of 4,500 square metres in the leisure center of Carré de Soie in Vaulx-en-Velin, a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, in France. This park has been open since June 30, 2016.
It is to date the largest amusement park of its kind in France. The project was inspired by the success of Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany.
Commune du canton
Le canton était constitué de la seule commune de Vaulx-en-Velin.
Historique
Le canton est créé par un décret du 20 janvier 1982 en détachant la commune de Vaulx-en-Velin du canton de Bron dont elle faisait partie depuis la création de ce dernier en 1964. Le 1er janvier 2015, le canton disparaît avec la naissance de la métropole de Lyon.
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Portail du département du Rhône Portail de la métropole de Lyon