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

Geography

Walls of Isere is located at 40 km in the south of Grenoble, on the plate matheysin.

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the Railroad of Mure is a small tourist train which uses the line of an old mining train which transported coal between Saint-Georges-with-Commiers and Walls It. The electrified line was inaugurated on July 24th, 1888.
the martyrdom of Walls or “the Three Crosses” set up on the site of the old Protestant citadel built by the Protestants in 1579. The Duc of Mayenne will order his destruction in 1581, little time after the seat of the town of 1580.
the old market, built for the first time in 1309 and several times destroyed by fires. The current market dates from the 19th century.
the Belfry of the 18th century.
the Matheysin Museum in the Caral house (of the 17th century), built with the site of the castle of the Dolphins (11th century).
the Castle of Beaumont built at the 15th century for the royal Lord of the manor of Walls Humbert de Comboursier.
the vault of Pierre-Julien Eymard. Initially vault of a priory Benedictine (medium 11th century), destroyed by the Protestants during the wars of religion (1579), it was rebuilt in 1606.
Église NR. - D. Assumption (1890), of style néo-romano-Gothic, a 60 m height, is almost as much as the turns of Notre-Dame de Paris.
the Town hall (1892) wanted to be the response of the mayor anticlerical Chion Ducollet to the new church NR. - D. Assumption.

Holy Pierre-Julien Eymard, founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, was born in Mure on February 4th 1811.

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