Good

Geography

Good is located at 8 km of Annemasse. It is a city in very strong growth, of which the number of inhabitants almost doubled in 20 years.

In the agricultural beginning, the saving in Good is from now on increasingly related to the French, but more especially Swiss tertiary sector.

Indeed, Geneva is located at approximately 15 km, and of many French cross the every day the border to work in the Genevese tertiary sector.

Contrary, the many Swiss ones cross the border to be established in Bonne, the prices of the real estate being much lower than in Suisse. Consequence, a blaze of the real estate in all the Genevese, with a multiplication by two or three of the tariffs in less than ten years.

History

From its privileged geographical position, there always were men on the commune of Good, and this, as of the Préhistoire.

However, it is necessary to await 1246 to see being reproduced the name of the commune on a notarial act.

With the the Middle Ages, the village develops around two poles, one military, High-Good, place strengthened with the Saint Nicolas's Day church, and other commercial the, Low-Good one, with the foot of the fortifications, crossroads between Geneva and Annecy.

During all the the Middle Ages and most of the modern time, the village is in the middle of the fights between troops of Savoy and Geneva, then between Savoy and France. In 1860, Savoy becomes French, and in fact, Bonne also.

Good Bonne on Menoge until in the Seventies was called, at the time of fusion with the village close to Loëx.

Tourist monuments and places

medieval Church Saint Nicolas's Day of High-Good
Oratorical of Pralère (culminating point of the commune, to 1.303 m)
Many hiking trails to the foot of Voirons
Riding school of Charniaz
the Menoge, river with trouts which passes to the bottom of Good

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