Caluire-et-Cuire

Caluire -et -Cuire is a commune with 41 357 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Rhône department in the Rhône -Alpes.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 Amalgamations
  • 4.1 Mayor
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 8.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical Location

Caluire -et -Cuire is a northern suburb of Lyons. The city is located between the Rhône, which forms the south-eastern district boundary and the Saône, the Caluire -et -Cuire limited to the northwest.

The municipality is bordered to the south by the Lyon's area of ​​La Croix- Rousse, on the west of Collonges -au -Mont- d'Or, in the north of Fontaines- sur -Saône, on the northeast by Rillieux- la -Pape, and to the southeast by Villeurbanne.

Boroughs

Caluire -et -Cuire consists of the following neighborhoods:

  • Bissardon
  • Cuire -le- Bas
  • Cuire -le-Haut
  • Le Bourg
  • Le Vernay
  • Montessuy
  • Saint- Clair
  • Vassieux

Population

The inhabitants of Caluire -et -Cuire hot Caluirards. Measured by the number of inhabitants, it is the fourth largest municipality of Greater Lyon, Lyon, Villeurbanne and Vénissieux.

Population Development

History

Caluire and Cuire were earlier churches of the former province of Franc- Lyonnais.

Incorporations

The community Caluire -et -Cuire was ( officially 1797) founded in 1790. It was formed from the merger of the community Caluire with the community Cuire, formerly part of the community Cuire -la -Croix- Rousse was.

Policy

Mayor

2008 was elected for a six -year term as mayor Philippe Cochet of the UMP.

Coat of arms

The reason, the facades and the yellow locks indicate that Caluire was a fortified city. The four yellow cornucopias on a blue background indicate that there used to be many vegetable farmers in the area. That's why it was important for the supply of the city of Lyon, which shows the golden lion on a red background.

Culture and sights

  • Le Radiant: Room for Events

Structures

  • Maison des Frères des Écoles: facades and roofs of the main building with its two wings and their chapel
  • The so-called house "La Rivette ": garden, porch, Nymphaeum and facades, roofs, large parts of the ground floor and the chapel of the building
  • Tenement of Dr. Dugoujon
  • Waterworks with pumps and pool is worth seeing the steam engine of the type " Cornwall ".

Economy and infrastructure

The main companies are Perica, Rillieux, Securitas, Contitech Anoflex, Apicil and ISS.

Traffic

Caluire -et -Cuire has a connection to the Métro Lyon called Cuire.

Sports

The woman footballers of SC Caluire Saint- Clair ( since 2011: Caluire FF 1968) have made ​​the city particularly in the 1970s and 1980s france widely known.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Eugène Villon, painter
  • In the 1950s, here Abbé Pierre lived in the rue Eugène Villon.
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