Etrembières (Municipality, Haute-Savoie, France)

Last modified: 2003-12-27 by ivan sache
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by Ivan Sache

• Presentation of Etrembières
  • Geography
  • History
• Description of the flag

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• France
• Haute-Savoie (Department, France)

Presentation of Etrembières

Geography

Etrembières is a village of 1,430 inhabitants (1999) located on the left bank of the river Arve. Etrembières is only 7 kms from Geneva (Switzerland). The municipality is made of the village of Etrembières and the hamlet of Pas-de-l'Echelle, built on the first slopes of mount Salève.

Most of the activity of Etrembières is linked to Switerland. A sizeable proportion of the inhabitants of the village work in Switzerland (and are locally called frontaliers). In 1994, the Swiss chain Migros opened a huge supermarket in Etrembières, which is also famous for its crowdy highway interchange.

The river Arve (100 km) has its source in the massif of Mont-Blanc. It has several mountain streams as tributaries, as well as the rivers Diosaz, Giffre, Borne and Menoge. The Arve flows into the Rhône near Geneva. In Etrembières, the Arve is a big river with a high flow, which explained the strategic importance of the bridge of Etrembières.

Mount Salève (highest point, le Grand Piton, 1875 m) stretches over 20 kms between Etrembières and Cruseilles. This so-called 'Genevan mountain' attracted tourists and naturalists as soon as in the XVIIIth century. Horace-B&