Bramans

Bramans is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Bramans is a village of High Maurienne in Savoy in edge of the border Italian, camped on the antique sees Roman which crossed the collar of Montcenis and the collar of the Rabbit burrow (Collar of Savine)

The village had to divide into three eminences with one kilometer from/to each other to protect itself from raw from the surrounding torrents. While arriving of Modane one first of all finds Bramans (1250m) which is the chief town. Located on the Roman way at 250 meters of the trunk road, there remained a typical village. Inside the old village one finds the traditional architecture of High Maurienne, of the houses of peasants, very beautiful in their rusticity, coupled with narrow lanes. One meets then Verney (1222m), along the main road.

Halfway between Bramans and Verney, isolated on a hillock, the parochial whole with the church the presbytery the cemetery and two vaults.

While following the Antique way one finds also the hamlet of Planay, it is the crossroads of the high rupestral valleys of the commune: Ambin, Etache, Savine where sight on the Tooth Parrachée (Alt: 3687 m) are impregnable.

Thanks to its situation, vis-a-vis the Park of Vanoise and in the solid mass of the Mount-Cenis Bramans offers typical landscapes and panoramas, decorated traditions, habits and monuments of a mountain village, which knew to keep its cordial authenticity and its side.

The Winter, the high valleys of the commune and the solid mass and the park of the close Vanoise offer all the charms of the Montagne, alpine Ski, Ski touring (60 km of marked tracks), the cross-country ski run or Raquette S.

History

The etymology of the name of Bramans is rather difficult to determine: one finds only traces on manuscripts where it appears about 1338 for oldest, then in a list of the possessions of the House of Savoy which mentions among them " Cinisius Minor" = the Small Mount-Cenis, and " Bramovicum olim Metropolis" : Bramans formerly Metropolis, meaning thus that in the past Bramans had a very important role.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church of Saint Pierre of Extravache (Bramans -73)

The ruined church of Saint Pierre of Extravache is the oldest church of Vallée of Maurienne. It symbolizes the beginning of Christianity in Maurienne. It would have been rested by two disciples of Saint Pierre: Elie and Milet.

The current church dates from the 10th century, one reaches it by the road which goes up to the small valley of Ambin. It faces the summit of the " Parrachée" tooth; , a top of 3 300 m located just opposite.

The apse preserves the traces of a fresco of the beginning of the 17th century: a Christ in majesty overcoming a representation of the Apostle S.

Personalities related to the commune

Marc Antoine of Washing-Trafford

In the years 1920, an enquiring doctor English Marc Antoine of impassioned Washing-Trafford of archeology bought a farm of mountain pasture in Bramans, not far from the collar of the small Cenis Mount, to devote itself to his investigations.

He became famous for his obstinacy to prove that Hannibal, into 218 ac. J.C., had made pass its elephants by the collar Clapier, nearer.

Internal bonds

Sport in Common Countries of Savoy
of Savoy

External bonds

''' Village of Camp-site-Municipal Bramans '''
Point-information
Hotel-the-glaciers

Other external Bonds

Village of Bramans and High Maurienne
Bramans on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bramans on the site of INSEE
Bramans on the site of Quid
Localization of Bramans on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bramans on Mapquest

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