Trept

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

Geography

Located at 45 minutes of Lyon, to 1 Grenoble time, Trept is with the doors of the big cities. The village is at 20 minutes of the highways A43 (Lyon/Chambéry) and A48 (Grenoble) and at 30 minutes of the airport Lyon Saint-Exupéry. It is established between Bourgoin-Jallieu (14 km), Crémieu (9 km) and Morestel (13 km). At one hour of the ski slopes, Trept remains a village in the middle of the countryside, near the great urban centres and of mountain tourism.

The village counts approximately 1785 inhabitants (recensment 2006) and one finds all the principal trade there (bakeries, butchery, grocer, hairdresser, tobacco/newspapers, coffees, restaurants), of the liberal professions (pharmacy, doctors, dentist, kinesitherapist, veterinary surgeon, chartered accountant), of the craftsmen (list within Trept and available in Town hall), a company of taxis, an estate agency and a zone of leisures with camp-site

Admirable small village of Isle Crémieu, with the frontages of apparent stone-built houses united with lime, Trept has an inheritance of high behavior. Except the string of communal ovens, laundrettes and fountains, the mysterious erratic blocks of the stone of the Good god and stone of the Devil maintain their secrecy jealously. The imposing castle of Serrières with its austere ramparts and its square court is an good example of the military architecture of the Middle Ages. With a few kilometers, the charming vault Saint Didier set up at the 15th century dominates the hamlet of Cozance. The region treptoise, formerly stronghold of the companions masons stone, is today an haven of peace for the fishermen with its many ponds and for the hikers, its paths marked out. To also see the richness of the natural heritage which conceals some remarkable species and of the dry lawns. The name of the village would have two origins: that of a territory from where three sources spout out or that of an area located beyond water; others claim that Trept means " very few terre".

History

Located at the north of Dauphine, in the middle of an undulating landscape, Trept is rich of its past. The village is on the road of picturesque small towns like the medieval city of Crémieu, the city of the painters of Morestel, Hières on Amby and its archeological site of Larina, Saint-Chief and his abbey. Integral part of Isle Crémieu, Trept takes support on the rock plate whose stone with roofing stone is famous, and is at the foot of harmonious valley where the marshes in the middle of the black cotton soil scintillate. Trept and its area are of an private interest for the fauna and the flora which shelter rare species. In the softness of the colors, under the morning fog, Trept reveals with in backdrop the mountainous solid masses of Vercors and Chartreuse, which are dominated by majestic and bright Mont Blanc in the rising sun.

To note the nonconformism of the inscriptions

on the pediment of the Town hall: `' Work, Peace, Freedom''
on the war memorial: `' Trept, has his/her dead children with the war''.

In the room of the marriages all the portraits of the Presidents of the Republic are exposed.

Administration

Telephone: 04.74.92.83 .87
Fax: 04.74.92.85 .76
Email: mairie.trept@wanadoo.fr

Demography

Last census 2006: 1.785 inhabitants approximately

Places and monuments

the castle of Poype de Serrières 14th/15th, restored
Its vault with Cozance 14th/16th century.
Its church of Trept 19th century.
Its furnaces and its laundrettes.
Its fresco.

public Nursery school.
public Elementary school.

Its communal

Personalities related to the commune

Soldier VARILLE

Common of Isere

External bonds

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

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