Charnay-lès-Mâcon

Charnay- lès -Mâcon is a commune with 6835 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Saône -et -Loire in the Burgundy region. It belongs administratively to the arrondissement and canton of Mâcon Mâcon Centre.

Geography

The municipality is located in the metropolitan area west of Mâcon, in the countryside of Mâcon. Neighboring municipalities are:

  • Hurigny in the north,
  • Macon in the east and south,
  • Fuissé and Pouilly Solutrense in the southwest,
  • Davayé in the west and
  • Prissé and Chevagny -les- Chevrières in the northwest.

On the western boundary of the municipality of the river Petite Grosne, which flows into the Saône to Mâcon runs.

Transport links

Charnay- les- Macon benefits in terms of its accessibility from the immediate vicinity of the road technically well -developed town of Mâcon.

By its area, run:

  • The A6 motorway (Paris- Lyon)
  • The National Road N79
  • The TGV LGV Sud -Est with Mâcon- Loché TGV station ( in the municipality of Mâcon )

In the field of community Charnay- les- Macon is also the airfield: Aerodrome de Mâcon - Charnay ( ICAO code: LFLM )

History

The place is 739 testified under the name Carnacus. This consists of a hand composed of the Welsh Carn for " cairn " and the suffix - acum also Welsh for a place or property. He is homonymous with Carnac, Carnac- Rouffiac, Charnat and various other community names with the Charnay part.

Since 968 testified as a place of worship for the worship of St. Peter takes over the Church of the borough Charnay in the 16th century the name of Sainte- Madeleine.

Twin Cities

  • Brack, Germany
  • Castagnole delle lance, Italy
  • Tudor Vladimirescu, Romania
  • Zbrosławice, Poland
  • Tarnalelesz, Hungary

Personalities

  • Claude Brosse (1656-1731), viticulture legend, promotional ambassador at the court of Louis XIV for the wines from the Maconnais Beaujolais
  • Claude- Philibert de Barthelot Rambuteau, politicians and civil servants, architects of the great Parisian reconstruction work under Baron Georges -Eugène Haussmann, who lived in the Domaine de Champgrenon before he was prefect in Paris.
  • Abbé Antoine Ferret, the initiator of numerous projects, including Scouting in favor of the Catholic Church
  • Marius Lacrouze, aviation pioneer and test pilot
  • Marine Lorphelin (* 1993), Miss France 2013
Cantons of France Postal codes in France A6 autoroute (France) LGV Sud-Est International Civil Aviation Organization airport code Brackenheim Castagnole delle Lanze Claude-Philibert Barthelot, comte de Rambuteau
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