Montivilliers

• Name — Montivilliers • Commune Status — Commune • Arrondissement — Le Havre • Canton — Le Havre-2 • Insee — 76447 • Postal Code — 76290 • Mayor — Jérôme Dubost • Term — 2026–32 • Intercommunality — Le Havre Seine Métropole • Elevation M — 8 • Elevation Min M — 2 • Elevation Max M — 94 • Area Km2 — 19.09

A large light industrial and farming town by the banks of the river Lézarde in the Pays de Caux, situated just 4 mi north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D489, D52, D926 and D31 roads.

Pre-Roman archaeological discoveries include Bronze Age axes and jade jewelry. The old Roman road from here to Harfleur was destroyed by the English in 1415. The Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, sometimes referred to as the Montivilliers Abbey dates back to 684, although it was destroyed by a Viking raid in 850, and rebuilt as a church in both the Romanesque and Gothic styles.

• The nineteenth-century chateau de Colmoulins. • The church of St. Germain, dating from the fourteenth century. • The abbey church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eleventh century. • The abbey museum • A Protestant church (1787) • The medieval ramparts. • The Arboretum du parc de Rouelles is an arboretum set within the Parc de Rouelles.

• Isaac de Larrey (1639–1719), French historian was born in Montvilliers • René Bihel, French footballer was born here in 1916. • Arthur Good (1853–1928), French engineer, science educator, author, and caricaturist who wrote under the pen-name "Tom Tit". • Sébastien Lepape, short track speed skater, born here in 1991. • Lys Mousset, professional footballer for Bohemian F.C. • Édouard Mendy, professional footballer for Chelsea F.C. • Migouel Alfarela (born 1997), professional footballer. • Jean Prévost, writer, lived here when his father was principal of a local school.

• Nordhorn, Germany since 1963