If Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs knew very certainly the Roman activity(occupation), his(her) history goes back up(raises) in 1314, dates to whom(which) the Dauphin Jean 2 exchanges this earth(ground) for that from Varacieux to Aymard VII de Bressieux.
Administrative centre of the canton since 1790, Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs is a historically rich village and which knew how to keep(preserve) some buildings, witness of important past. So, in the course of your walk, you can discover a passage of Moyen-Age in pebbles, houses in rolled pebbles, Varanin's strong House (which kept(guarded) the door is of Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, quoted strengthened), the castle Saint wax candle, and different detail architectural remarkable.
Also to see, the city hall (the former(ancient) school building(ship) of the 19th century), the Merovingian cross, and the church where each of the three successive contructions (Romanic, Gothic and neogothic) left the track.
In 1968, for the winter Olympic Games is opened to it the current airport of Grenoble
- Saint-Geoirs.
Besides these buildings(ships) marking our visual memory, Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs saw being born some personalities who have, for ever marked that of the heart :
- Louis Mandrin (1725-1755), celebrates "Captain of the Smugglers" who set up himself against the power of the Farmers Generals. He died, sly, in Valence.
- General Joseph Vinay (1800-1880 ), lieutenant during the grip of Algiers in 1830, it(he) distinguished itself during the war of Crimea (1854-1855 ).
- Rose Valland (1898-1980), girl of the marshal - ferrand of the village, among whom the courage and the tenacity allowed to find and to restore the biggest part(party) of the French artistic patrimony despoiled by the Nazis during the second world war.
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