French Chablais

The French Chablais , also called high-Savoyard Chablais or Savoyard Chablais in reference to its membership of the Duchy of Savoy, belonged to a vaster area, the Chablais, which extends on the territories from the Suisse and the France. The south of Chablais is mountainous; it constitutes the Massif of Chablais.

High-Savoyard Chablais is the most septentrional area of the the French Alps. It extends on nearly 900 km ² in the North-East to the Haute-Savoie between the Lac Léman and the Vallée to Giffre, and corresponds, at the administrative level, the Arrondissement of Thonon-the-Baths (except Canton of Boëge). This one includes/understands six cantons and gathers 61 communes.

It is a populated area of 101.000 inhabitants, that is to say a density of 111 inhabitants by km ², which locates it in the French average.

The main cities of high-Savoyard Chablais are: Thonon-the-Baths (28 900 hab.chiffre 1999), Évian-the-Baths (7 787 hab.chiffre 2005), To publish (5 889 hab.chiffre 2006), Saw (4.782 hab.chiffre 2004), Douvaine (3 859 hab.chiffre 1999) and Morzine (2 933 hab.chiffre 1999).

Geography

High-Savoyard Chablais includes/understands three geographical areas:

In north, the low Chablais bordering southern bank of Léman, plain of the Savoyard tectonic foreland;
the Coast-in-Chablais on the first buttresses of the pre-Alps and the Country of Gavot, which is a high-plate located between the lake Léman and the Vallée of Dranse;
In the south, the high Chablais mountainous with, like principal tourist center, the unit Morzine - Avoriaz, the Valley of Aulps and the Valley of Abundance.

History

See partly Chablais#Histoire

Economy

Tourism

Abundance: the Valley of Abundance, the Abbey Notre-Dame d' Abondance and the House of Valley-in Abondance;
with Allinges: the Castle of Allinges;
Avoriaz ;
Bellevaux : The Lake of Small valley and the Rock of Hell;
Évian-the-Baths: the Garden of water pre curious, the Musée Is a prelude to and the Usine of mineral Water of Evian; the Boat of Léman
with the Gets: the Museum of the mechanical Music;
with Lugrin: the Temple of the Cheese;
the Lake of Small valley, with Chevrerie, commune of Bellevaux.
the Lake Montriond, commune of Montriond, very close to Morzine.
Morzine ;
with To publish: the Natural reserve of the Delta of Dranse;
with Saint-Jean-in Aulps: the Abbey Notre-Dame d' Aulps;
with Saint-Gingolph: the Museum of the Traditions and the boats of Léman;
with Saw: Castle of the Tower of Marignan, the Park of the Eagles of Léman and the departmental Museum of the Firemen of Haute-Savoie;
Thonon-the-Baths: the Castle of Feast, the Écomusée of Fishing and the lake and the Church baroque Saint-Hyppolyte;
with Vernaz: the Throats of the Bridge-of-Devil;
Yvoire : the Labyrinth - Garden of the Five Directions and the Vivarium d' Yvoire.

External bonds

the Site of French Chablais, (geography and economy)
communes of the " bas" Savoyard Chablais

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