Solaize

Solaize is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps. The inhabitants are called Solaizards.

Geography

Geography: The commune is presented in the form of a valley to the west and of one hill to the east. The hill corresponds to the dwellings and with the arable lands and the valley “chemistry” with three poles of research is known as: the IFP (French Petroleum Institute), a laboratory of CNRS (National center of the scientific research) and the CRES (the Total research center of the company).
Agriculture: The common one has a large surface devoted to agriculture. In particular the leek whose seeds of the variety the Blue of Solaize are known universally, and the white asparagus.

History

One finds on the commune of Solaize of many traces of human occupations through the centuries.

In the north of the commune of the flint tools dating from the period of the Neolithic was found.
Of the vestiges gone back to a little before the Bronze Age was discovered on the site the Sugar loaf located at the south of the commune. It was about a shelter used as burial then as dwelling (there does not exist today any more that partly because a career was installed on the site).
Of the Gallo-Roman time the common preserve a milliary terminal (being used as road indicator on the way Lyon - Vienna) year 43. This terminal was registered in 1910 with the inventory of the Historic building. Roman potteries were also found in the north of the commune (zone of Figuières). The archeologists seek since many years in the surroundings of the commune Roman villa of importance where were to stop the graded Roman ones on the road of Lyon - Vienna. As to accredit their research certain traditional legends of Solaize evoke inter alia large fish mosaics and women discovered in fields by farmers of the nineteenth century.
There exists in Solaize some constructions dating from the Moyen-âge of which the tower of the old priory of the Labels (appendix of the abbey of Hautecombe). The current name of the place is the castle of Saint-Annin (the orthography is sometimes Agnin of the name of its owner). This castle is located at the north of the commune.
the Romance church New Year's Eve dates from the fifteenth century for the central span. The remainder of the church was rebuilt with the seventeenth century and the nineteenth century (the stained glasses date from the 19th century). The bell-tower had four bells before the French revolution of 1789. There remained nothing any more but one in 2002 about it, classified with the inventory of the Historic building before one second bell is added.
There exists also a laundrette located close to the Coast of Hemp. (date of?)

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Romance Church

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Rhone

External bonds

town hall of solaize
Solaize on the site of the national geographical Institute
Solaize on the site of INSEE
Solaize on the site of Quid
Localization of Solaize on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Solaize on Mapquest

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