The Ray-on-Saone

the Ray-on-Saone is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Saône and the area Franche-Comté.

The inhabitants are the “raylois”

Geography

This small village is located in Haute-Saône between Dijon and Besancon.

History

Administration

Demography

Economy

  • Agriculture

  • Tourism
  • Trade

Places and monuments

  • Important Castle of the Lords de Ray dominating the valley of the Saone.

  • Église whose construction would go back to IXe century. Chorus builds before 1224. Side chapels of XIVe century. The central keystone is gone back to 1550. The bell-tower, destroyed in 1642, was rebuilt in 1768.
  • the Ray-on-Saone belongs to the “Small cities comtoises of character”

Personalities related to the commune

  • Ettore Bellini - Inventor of the radiogoniometer, was there so that it settled there and lived there until his death in 1943.

Events

  • Festival of the Water (last weekend of July)

See too

  • Common of the Haute-Saône

External bonds

  • Presentation of the village and the life of the village in photographs: the village, the Saone, the castle, the church, the festival of Water

  • the Ray-on-Saone on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the Ray-on-Saone on the site of INSEE
  • the Ray-on-Saone on the site of Quid
  • Localization of the Ray-on-Saone on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on the Ray-on-Saone on Mapquest
  • the Lime of Ray - Rooms of Hosts in the Ray-on-Saone - Isabelle Ladouce & Dominique D' Onghia

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