Vassieux-in-Vercors

Vassieux-in-Vercors is a common French, located in the department of the Drome and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

The village is built on a small spur Calcaire, dominating of a few meters a vast lengthened depression ic Karst, of type “Polje”. This polje occupies itself part of the Synclinal generally named " Plate of Vassieux".

The Plate of Vassieux is the seat many other karstic phenomena (Scialet S, Lapiaz, loss S, Grotte S…), explored and studied by the speleological clubs local.

See Massive of Vercors.

Economy

The human and economic main activities rest on the Agriculture (breeding, wood.) and the Tourism.

History

Prehistory

  • In the south of the village, one finds several sites of extraction and size of Silex, emphasized well by the Museum of Prehistory.

Resistance

  • For its important facts of resistance during the Occupation, the city received the title of Compagnon of the Release. A memorial built with the collar of Chau preserves the memory of these dark events of the Second world war, it includes/understands a cemetery and a memorial to honor the victims with the tragic events of July 1944. See the site.

See also: Maquis of Vercors

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Principal natural cavities
  • Scialet of Seppe
  • Scialet Michellier
  • Scialet-cave of Baumettes
  • Loss of Sagnes

Monuments

  • Mémorial of resistance
  • Nécropole of resistance
  • Musée of resistance
  • Musée of prehistory
  • Monde of let us santons (Rey Restaurant)

Events

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Drome
  • Massive of Vercors

External bonds

  • Official site of the commune of Vassieux-in-Vercors
  • Vassieux-in-Vercors on the site of INSEE
  • Localization of Vassieux-in-Vercors on a chart of France
  • Plane of Vassieux-in-Vercors on Mapquest
  • Page of the site about the Release and on the resistance of the commune during the speleological Occupation
  • Club of Vassieux-in-Vercors (CHV)
  • Regional natural park of Vercors

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