Annecy
Annecy
È(n)neci ( Arpitan) | |
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Prefecture and commune | |
Clockwise from top: Lake Annecy seen from the Pont des Amours, Château d'Annecy, Passage de l'Île, Haute-Savoie prefecture building | |
Coordinates: 45°54′58″N 6°07′59″E / 45.916°N 6.133°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
Department | Haute-Savoie |
Arrondissement | Annecy |
Canton | Annecy-1, 2, Annecy-3 and 4 |
Intercommunality | CA Grand Annecy |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | François Astorg[1] |
Area 1 | 66.94 km2 (25.85 sq mi) |
• Urban | 227.0 km2 (87.6 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 131,715 |
• Density | 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi) |
• Urban (2018) | 177,622 |
• Urban density | 780/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
Demonym(s) | Annécien (masculine) Annécienne (feminine) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 74010 /74000 |
Dialling codes | 0450 |
Elevation | 396–1,153 m (1,299–3,783 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Annecy (
Switching from the
From the end of the 19th century, Annecy developed tourism around its lake summer facilities, winter resorts proximity and cultural attraction with its castle renovation and fine art museum opening in 1956 and the
History
Early history
Le vieil Annecy ("Old Annecy"; not to be confused with
Counter-Reformation
With the advance of
1815–present
After the
The new municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger with the former communes of Annecy-le-Vieux, Cran-Gevrier, Meythet, Pringy and Seynod.[10]
Administration
Annecy is part of four cantons (Annecy-1, Annecy-2, Annecy-3 and Annecy-4); it is the prefecture of Haute-Savoie.
Since 2017, Annecy has consisted of six delegate cities: Annecy; Annecy-le-Vieux; Cran-Gevrier; Meythet; Pringy; and Seynod.
The
Geography
The
Climate
Annecy has an
Climate data for Annecy, Haute-Savoie - Alt : 458m | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 16.5 (61.7) |
20.3 (68.5) |
24.3 (75.7) |
27.4 (81.3) |
32.6 (90.7) |
35.1 (95.2) |
38.0 (100.4) |
38.5 (101.3) |
31.9 (89.4) |
26.5 (79.7) |
22.3 (72.1) |
19.9 (67.8) |
38.5 (101.3) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.4 (41.7) |
7.6 (45.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
15.6 (60.1) |
20.5 (68.9) |
24.0 (75.2) |
26.1 (79.0) |
25.7 (78.3) |
20.7 (69.3) |
16.0 (60.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
5.6 (42.1) |
15.7 (60.3) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.9 (35.4) |
3.3 (37.9) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.2 (50.4) |
15.0 (59.0) |
18.3 (64.9) |
20.2 (68.4) |
19.9 (67.8) |
15.6 (60.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
5.9 (42.6) |
2.5 (36.5) |
10.9 (51.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.6 (29.1) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
1.6 (34.9) |
4.7 (40.5) |
9.5 (49.1) |
12.5 (54.5) |
14.3 (57.7) |
14.1 (57.4) |
10.4 (50.7) |
7.2 (45.0) |
2.3 (36.1) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
6.1 (43.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −23.0 (−9.4) |
−15.5 (4.1) |
−15.0 (5.0) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
1.0 (33.8) |
3.0 (37.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
−23.0 (−9.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 91.2 (3.59) |
82.1 (3.23) |
94.6 (3.72) |
102.8 (4.05) |
105.1 (4.14) |
90.0 (3.54) |
100.8 (3.97) |
114.8 (4.52) |
123.3 (4.85) |
118.0 (4.65) |
116.8 (4.60) |
109.9 (4.33) |
1,249.4 (49.19) |
Average precipitation days | 11.2 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 11.6 | 9.1 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 9.1 | 11.4 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 124.8 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 90.8 | 114.7 | 169.4 | 193.6 | 221.0 | 259.7 | 274.6 | 241.2 | 190.3 | 142.6 | 86.7 | 68.7 | 2,053.3 |
Source 1: Météo France | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Infoclimat[11] |
Culture
Annecy has hosted the
Sport
On 23 July 2009, Annecy played host to Stage 18 of the Tour de France, as the start/finish point for an individual time trial around Lake Annecy. It was also the start town for stage 10 of the 2018 Tour de France on 17 July 2018.
Annecy launched a
The Annecy basin is one of the world's leading locations for the sport of paragliding, an activity of some economic importance to the region.[13] The area regularly hosts major competitions, most recently a leg of the Paragliding World Cup in 2012.[14] Due to its proximity with the lake and the mountains, Annecy is also popular for watersports (sailing, rowing, wakeboarding, water skiing) and wintersports (alpine skiing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing). Le Semnoz, a relatively small ski resort is 35 minutes away from Annecy. Other bigger ski resorts, La Clusaz and Le Grand Bornand, are only 40 minutes away. Annecy is also very popular among trail runners and many races are organized year round, such as the World Trail Running Championships in 2015.[15]
Main sights
- The Palais de l'Isle is a 12th-century castle on an island in the river Historical Monumentin 1900, and today houses a local history museum.
- The Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours, an offshoot
- The 15th century Église Saint-Maurice
Education
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc
- Polytech'Savoie
Population
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Annecy was merged with four neighbouring communes in 2017. Source: EHESS (1793–1999)[16] and INSEE[17][18] |
Research organisations
- LAPP Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules specialized in Physics
- LISTIC The Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing Laboratory
- Mecatronics department of CETIM
- Different R&D activities in the Université de Savoie and its École Polytechnique d'Ingenieurs: Polytech'Savoie.
Economy
In the 19th century, the primary manufactures were
Companies located in and around Annecy include:
- Salomon Group
- adixen Vacuum Products
- Sopra Group
- Ubisoft Annecy
Transport
The
Annecy – Haute-Savoie – Mont Blanc Airport currently used for private air transport only.
Twin towns – sister cities
- Bayreuth, Germany
- Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
- Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
- Sainte-Thérèse, Canada
- Vicenza, Italy
Associations
Together with other Alpine towns Annecy engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. Annecy is also Alpine Town of the Year 2012.
Notable people
- Bernard Accoyer (born 1945), politician, President of the National Assembly 2007 to 2012 and Mayor of Annecy-le-Vieux.
- Bernard Bosson (1948–2017), politician, Govt. minister & Mayor of Annecy
- Eustace Chapuys (c. 1490–1556), Imperial ambassador to the English Court of Henry VIII
- Francis de Sales (1567–1622), bishop of Geneva / Annecy and Catholic Saint.[20]
- André Dussollier (born 1946), actor
- Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme (born 1971), conductor, works in Russia
- Bernard Miège (born 1941), a media theorist and academic administrator.
- Guillaume Perret (born 1980), jazz musician and composer
- Emmanuel Tarpin (born 1992), contemporary jewelry designer
- Cécile Vogt-Mugnier (1875–1962), brain researcher
Sport
- Louis Lachenal (1921–1955), alpinist, one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.
- Bernard Collomb (1930-2011), racing driver
- Vincent Vittoz (born 1975), cross-country skier
- Johan Clarey (born 1981), alpine skier, silver medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Thomas Fanara (born 1981), alpine skier, competed in three Winter Olympics
- David Poisson (born 1982), alpine skier, competed in two Winter Olympics
- Steve Missillier (born 1984) alpine skier, silver medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Jonathan Midol (born 1988), freestyle skier, bronze medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Christophe Lemaitre (born 1990), sprinter, bronze medallist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Côme Ledogar (born 1991), racing driver
- Axelle Mollaret (born 1992), physiotherapist, skyrunner and ski mountaineer.
- Hugo Lapalus (born 1998), cross-country skier, team bronze medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Sacha Fenestraz (born 1999), French-Argentine racing driver
Associated with the city
- Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641), Holy of the Catholic Church, founded in Annecy the Order of Salesian Sisters
- Jean Coppier, of the Coppier family, notary in Annecy in 1396.[21]
- Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585–1650), man of letters, philologist and grammarian.[22]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), writer and philosopher, spent some time in Annecy.[23]
- Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), physician and chemist, began medical studies locally in 1760.[24]
- Eugène Sue (1804–1857), writer, spent his last years in exile in Annecy and died there.[25]
Gallery
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Annecy, the "Venice of the Alps"
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Palais de l'Isle jail
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Houses along the Thiou river
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Restaurants along the Thiou river
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Thiou river
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Thiou river
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Palais de l'Isle jail by night
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Annecy Château
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View of the Canal
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Lake Annecy from the south dock of Annecy
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Church of St. Francis
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Imperial Hotel
See also
- Arpitan language – Franco-Provençal language
- Arpitania
Notes
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Annecy". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Annecy". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Unité urbaine 2020 d'Annecy (74601), Commune d'Annecy (74010), INSEE
- ^ a b c d e EB (1878).
- ^ a b c d e EB (1911).
- Gallica23 May 2017 (in French)
- ^ "France shootings: Three victims shot in head". BBC News Online. BBC. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Arrêté du 14 juillet 2016 portant création d'une commune nouvelle" (in French).
- ^ "Normales et records climatologiques 1981-2010 a Annecy-Meythet". Infoclimat (in French). Archived from the original on 29 August 2023.
- ^ Paula Hancocks, CNN. "South Korean city to host 2018 Winter Olympics". CNN.com. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Paragliding in the Annecy Basin (PDF) (in French), DRDJS Rhone Alpes, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2010, retrieved 30 October 2011
- ^ World Cup France Talloires 2012, retrieved 15 August 2014
- ^ Record participation for 2015 IAU Trail World Championships| News | iaaf.org
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Annecy, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Populations légales 2012: Commune d'Annecy (74010), INSEE
- ^ Populations légales 2017: 74 Haute-Savoie, INSEE
- ^ "Les jumelages de la commune déléguée d'Annecy". annecy.fr (in French). Annecy. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ Mackey, Henry Benedict (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). pp. 940–941. .
- ^ Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du XIXe siècle. Vol. 11. Imprimerie Charles Hérissey. 1912. pp. 344–345. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 954–955. .
- Rockstro, William Smyth; Chisholm, Hugh (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 775–778.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 812. .
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 20. .
References
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 64 ,
- Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1911), , in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 72
External links
- Annecy town website (in French)