Les Marches

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Les Marches is a former commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Porte-de-Savoie. ()

Alternative names: Population: 2.7 thous.Area: 5.93 mi²Coordinates: 45°29'39"N, 5°59'41"E

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Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance

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Les Marches – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Les Charmettes, Mont Granier, Château Bayard, Mont Joigny.

5.1 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum
Les Charmettes, Chambéry
131 min walk • Les Charmettes is writer's house museum in a hamlet near the town of Chambéry in the Savoie region of France. It is famed as a favourite retreat of the philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
3.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mont Granier, Réserve naturelle nationale des Hauts de Chartreuse
101 min walk • Mont Granier is a limestone mountain located between the départements of Savoie and Isère in France. It lies in the Chartreuse Mountains range of the French Prealps between the towns of Chapareillan and Entremont-le-Vieux.
5 miS
Forts and castles
Château Bayard, Pontcharra
129 min walk • The Château Bayard is a castle in the commune of Pontcharra in the département of Isère, and dominates the valley of Grésivaudan in the Dauphiné Alps. Château Bayard has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1915.
4.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mont Joigny
120 min walk • Mont Joigny is a mountain in the Chartreuse Mountains in Savoie, France. It lies west of the Col du Granier and north of Entremont-le-Vieux.
4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass
Col du Granier
102 min walk • Col du Granier is a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Savoie in France which crosses the Chartreuse Mountains to connect the villages of Entremont-le-Vieux, Apremont and Chapareillan.
4.8 miNW
Area
Barberaz, Chambéry
123 min walk • Barberaz is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is part of the urban area of Chambéry.
4.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pointe de la Gorgeat
125 min walk • The Pointe de la Gorgeat is a Chartreuse Mountain culminating at 1,486 m above sea level in the French department of Savoie.
4.1 miS
Military base, Forts and castles
Fort Barraux, Barraux
105 min walk • Fort Barraux, located in the commune of Barraux in Isère, is one of the oldest bastioned forts in the Alps still standing.
3.5 miN
Forts and castles
Château de Triviers, Challes-les-Eaux
91 min walk • The castle of Triviers is a 16th century castle located in France in the commune of Challes-les-Eaux, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
5.1 miN
Forts and castles
Château des Charmilles, La Ravoire
129 min walk • The Charmilles castle is a XIX century castle located in France in the commune of La Ravoire, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
4.3 miS
Memorial
War Memorial, Barraux
109 min walk • Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.