Lugrin

Lugrin is to 6 km in the East of Évian-the-Baths, in the department of the Haute-Savoie, in area the Rhone-Alps. The village is located on the edges of the Lac Léman, in Pays of Gavot in the French Chablais, with a few kilometers of the Saint-Gingolph and the Swiss border. Its inhabitants is the Lugrinoises and the Lugrinois .

Communes bordering

Nature of the landscapes

  • Coastal area between lake and forest with a slope from 10 to 15%: zone prinicipale of intermediate habitat
  • Forest zone, slope 20 to 40%: beeches and fir trees
  • Zone of the plate of Laprau (900 m of altitude): meadow
  • Zone of the Mount Benand (1248 m of altitude): forest

Transportation routes

By roads

Public transport

Airport and heliport

Village, Hamlet

  • At Busset; Troubois; Roseires; Minnow; Tourronde; At Cachat; Crétal; Combes; Old Church; Rys; Chief town; Laprau; Let us work; At Nives; At Servoz; Leucel; Grabilles; At Cachat; Red bridge; The Meadows Parraux

History

Heraldic

  • Crossed, to the 1: of money to the cherry tree with the naturalness; to the 2: mouths with a boat of Léman of argent"

Etymology

  • One finds AD Lugrino in a charter of the 9th century, then Lugrinum; identical origin that for Lugano and Lugdunum (today Lyon). Root LUG means lake or river

History of the village/city

Culture and Inheritance

Architectural heritage

Medieval period