Nances

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

Géntilé

The Nanceyardes/Nanceiardes and Nanceyards/Nanceiards .

Geography

Nances , commune of the Savoyard Tectonic foreland, is located at the foot of the collar of the Spine and on northern bank of the Lac of Aiguebelette.

History

With the the Middle Ages, a pilgrimage was organized with the vault of the Castle of the Spine which contained a spine of the crown of the Christ. This relic was brought back at the time of the 4th Croisade (1250) by Guillaume of the Spine.

Under the French revolution, the revolutionists of Albitte, called the " Robespierre savoyard" , demolished the castle and the invaluable relic disappeared about 1805.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Its marsh with rents of Nances, which is a kind of inside pocket of the lake being next to the arrival of Leysse in the Lake Aiguebelette.
the murgeret, zone of fall, which goes back to the same time as the crumbling of the Mont Granier, characterized by an arid landscape which slices with the rich person close pastures.
the Holy vault Rose, whose foundation goes up in 1672 following the will of Me Claude Deschamps, on the vestiges of a older circular basin.
C' is a place of pilgrimage to beseech the rain during the dry season.
the remarkable site of the chief town with the restoration of the cure of the town hall and the shaded church by a lime planted at the 17th century.
sight on the building of the CESAR, which accommodates the exchange of control of all network AREA, a futuristic building which slices with the aspect bucolic and rural basin of Aiguebelette.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Savoy

External bonds

Nances on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nances on the site of INSEE
Nances on the site of Quid
Localization of Nances on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Nances on Mapquest

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