Condrieu

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

The inhabitants are called Condriots .

Heraldic

Victor Adolphe Malta-Brown (in illustrated France , 1882) brings back two Blasonnement S:

“Of mouths, with the gold griffon, faced with crowned a gold money lion. ”

“Of sand to a money rafter, charged with a sand billet. ”

Geography

Condrieu is located on Right Bank of the the Rhone, to approximately 11 km in the south of Vienna and 44 km in the south of Lyon, the foot of the last slopes of the Monnet Mount.

Communes bordering

on Right Bank of the Rhone

in the canton of Condrieu : the Hedges and Tupin-and-Let us sow;
in the Canton of Pélussin (District of Saint-Etienne, department of the the Loire) : the Vault-Villars and Jack;

on left bank of the Rhone:

in the Canton of Roussillon (District of Vienna, Department of Isere) : the Saint-Clearly-of-Rhone;
in the Canton of Vienna-South (district of Vienna, department of Isere) : Chonas-l' Amballan and Rock-with-Condrieu.

History

Some Historien S makes go up the existence of Condrieu to the IIIe century before J. - C.

The vocation Viticole of the area was already known time of Pline, even if the composition and the taste of the Vin S were undoubtedly very different from what they are nowadays.

The city was strengthened and surrounded by walls at the end of the 12th century per Raymond de Forez, Archevêque Lyon. Of these fortifications only one tower of the Château remains which dominates the city.

At the 11th century, in addition to the production and the trade of famous the white Wine, one notes activities of industrial shipping and production of fabric S and Broderie S.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Malta-Brown, in illustrated France , gives like natives of Condrieu:

Charles Louis Hector, duke of Villars (1653 - 1734), general Marshal of the camps and armies of the king,
Jules Janin (1804 - 1874), Journalist, Critical Literary and writer French,
respectively born with Mills and Saint-Etienne, according to the Large encyclopedic Larousse (???)

Economy

The principal activities are the vine (white Wine) and the culture maraîchère.
Voir the article: Condrieu (wine).

Others

the commune of Condrieu is adherent Regional natural park of Pilat.

See too

Common of the Rhone

External bonds

Site of the community of communes of Condrieu
Site of a condriot on condrieu
Site of the Multi-media Room of condrieu
local Information on the area of condrieu
Condrieu on the site of the national geographical Institute
Condrieu on the site of INSEE
Condrieu on the site of Quid
Localization of Condrieu on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Condrieu on Mapquest

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