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Pontcharra, France (No. 1)

Pontcharra is a French commune located in the department of Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

The city is particularly known for being the birthplace of the knight Bayard who participated in the Italian wars in the 16th century.

Its inhabitants are called the Charrapontains.

With Crolles, Pontcharra is one of the most important towns in the Grésivaudan valley (valley located between the Chartreuse massif and the Belledonne range). It occupies the northernmost part of the valley (Haut-Grésivaudan), on the border with Savoie. Pontcharra is located at the crossroads of three valleys: the Trouée des Marches, the Grésivaudan and the Combe de Savoie.

Unlike most of the other surrounding towns which were built on the hillsides, Pontcharra is mainly built on the plain. The city is spread out between the Brame-Farine mountain (Belledonne range) to the east and the Isère river to the west, on the course of the Bréda, at the outlet of its gorges.

The town offers a panorama of the Bauges massif and Mont Granier (Chartreuse massif). On a clear day, it is possible to see the massifs which surround the Grésivaudan valley as far as Crolles.

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Pontcharra, France (No. 2)

The Bréda river, with a length of 32.1 kilometers, crosses the municipal territory and the town of Pontcharra before joining Isère. It is therefore a sub-tributary of the Rhône.

Flood control is managed by the Isère Drac Romanche departmental association.

A commune surrounded by mountains, Pontcharra has a partly mountain-type climate relatively tempered by its low altitude and is characterized by often dry and hot summers. In winter, the snow is most of the time scant and does not last long.

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rabbitcruiser · 6 months

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Pontcharra, France (No. 2)

The official name of the commune is Pontcharra, but she is colloquially nicknamed Ponch. In the past, the Pontcharra-sur-Isère shapes and Pontcharra-sur-Bréda were used, and the latter is still the name of the SNCF station. This is in order to distinguish the commune from its namesake, Pontcharra-sur-Turdine in the Lyonnais mountains, and from its Pontcharra - Saint-Forgeux railway station.

This name dates back to the Gallo-Roman period, when the villa of Pontcharra was the most important in the valley after that of Meylan. Due to its geographical location (at the northern end of the Grésivaudan valley) and the presence of the Breda torrent, Pontcharra was at the time a strategic area to reach the Savoyard valleys. The name Pontcharra comes from the combination of pons and carrum, which literally means "chariot bridge".

After the great invasions (Burgundians in particular), the place called "Pontcharra" entered a period of decadence. The place is strategic, but the environment is particularly inhospitable (swamps, invasions, etc.) and the populations prefer to settle on the hillsides (hence the multitude of hamlets). The current location of the city centre was therefore populated at the time by marginalized people (especially lepers).

The name "Pontcharra" appears for the first time in texts around the middle of the fourteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that Pontcharra had an official existence. What was only a poor locality would indeed develop and expand thanks to trade and industry (mainly paper) to end up absorbing the neighbouring parishes of Grignon and Villard-Benoit.

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