Selongey

Selongey is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy.

Geography

Commune located on the Alley at the doors of the Burgundy, not far from the limit enters the departments of Coast-in Or and the Haute-Marne.

History

Administration

Demography

Economy

Selongey is also an industrial center of high technology with the factory SEB (Burgundian Company of Stamping), company of world famous which gave birth to the Autocuiseur Cocotte-minute in 1953, a revolution in the French hearths and later foreigners thanks to export. Multinational SEB was born from a company famililale of Selongey creates by the Lescure family with the XIXe century.

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

Tourism

Its geographical location reviews of it of passage and halt for many tourists come from Holland, Belgium, England and Germany in particular.

Its camp-site which accommodates nearly 5.000 visitors each year and its lodgings make it possible to make a Escale to visit the wooded surroundings of the city and the edges of the Venelle (small Rivière).

Places and monuments

the Holy Vault Gertrude

Personalities related to the commune

Frederic LESCURE (SEB, inventor of the Pressure-cooker)
Alphonse Legros
François Bony

See too

Common of Coast-in Or

External bonds

Selongey on the site of the national geographical Institute
Selongey on the site of INSEE
Selongey on the site of Quid
Localization of Selongey on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Selongey on Mapquest
Site of Sporting Club Selongéen
Site of the club of Tennis of Selongey

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