Givors

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

Its inhabitants is called the Givordins .

Geography

At the Confluent of the the Rhone and Gier, the commune is located at 25 km in the south of Lyon halfway on the road leading to Saint-Etienne. Enclosed between the Mounts of the Lyonese, in north and the west, and the buttresses of the Pilat, in the south and the west, it is a crossroads making communicate the areas inhabitants of Saint-Etienne, the Velay and the Forez, with the Dauphiné, Lyons south and the valley of the Rhone. The highway A47 passes in the middle of the agglomeration in waiting of the A45. ; Communes bordering:

History

Site noticed by the Roman since its site corresponds to an elbow of the river the Rhone, the current city of Givors to the Middle Ages is the possession of the archbishop's palace of Lyon and the lord of Montagny. The castle of Saint-Gerald is the residence of the canons, representative of the archbishops of the city. It is destroyed in 1596 because it is not useful any more. 17th century at the 19th century the city is marked by the corporations of the Mariniers whose Saint Nicolas's Day church is the religious center. Givors is for a long time a crossroads between the valley of the Rhone and that of the the Loire. It was a center of Verrerie at the 18th century, with the installation of a royal glassmaking HTTP: /www.ville-givors.fr/decouverte/histoire/histoire_givors_3.html established in 1749. It became (with the construction of the channel HTTP: /membres.lycos.fr/bgoirand/canal/canal-de-givors.htm and after the railway in the valley of Gier) thereafter a metallurgical town of industry of the middle of the 19th century until in 1960 and also the Faience manufactures New HTTP: /aesop.creighton.edu/jcupub/newpage317.htm recognized in all Europe, of the brickyards and tileries road of Varissan road of Bank of Gier and road of tileries on the edges of the channel, a crystal manufacture (manufactures bulbs) Street Jean Ligonnet, one manufacturing of pedal carriers for children and landeaux street Edourd Idoux, a factory of refractory products close to the station of Givors-city. ; Blasonnement:
the armorial bearings were conceded by Napoleon III, by decrees of February 2nd, 1861 and of April 14th, 1866:
Of mouths, with three gold bees placed: two and one; frank district with dextral of azure with the gold NR, surmounted by a radiant star of same, the ecu summoned of a mural crown with five crenels, of money, for cimier, crossing of one caducé circumvented, of money, to which two garlands are suspended, one with dextral, of olive-tree, the other with sinistral, of oak, also of money, tied and attached by strips of azure
To the fall of the Empire, the district of azure with the gold NR is removed.
the shortly after the Second world war, Givors receives the Military Cross, which is added to the weapons of the city such that they are presented today.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The city has an antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Lyon.

Places and monuments

  • " Étoiles" of Jean Renaudie, together of residences to very particular architecture.
  • Saint-Martin-with-Cornas , church Saint-Lazare.
  • Banns, church Saint Pancrace of the 12th century.
  • the Bridge of Givors which connects Givors to Chasse-sur-Rhône.

Personalities related to the commune

Twinning

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Prospects for regrouping

In November 2005, the communes of Givors and Grigny subjected their candidature for adhesion to the Grand Lyon after consultation of the population. The Community council voted its agreement with these candidatures. The two cities joined Large Lyon at January 1st 2007.

The negociations had started much earlier, but had not been able to succeed before. Indeed, the payment instituting Large Lyon imposed a territorial continuity of the urban community. However, between Givors, Grigny and the remainder of Large Lyon, were the commune of Millery, not very eager to join EPCI. It is following a revision of the Community Staff Regulations that the meeting of the two common ones could become possible.

Local folklore

The Lyon be born use the expression " to be parked as in Givors" to express the idea of a hasty parking, without respect of the lines of site, even in a place prohibited with the parking (no statistical study or sociological comes however to confirm or cancel such a reputation).

" is also said; make as in Givors" to say " like you make veux".

See too

  • Common of the Rhone

External bonds

  • Official site of the commune
  • Givors from one century to another…
  • Givors on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Givors on the site of INSEE
  • Givors on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Givors on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Givors on Mapquest

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