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74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France - panoramio - 4net
74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- 74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Saint-Gervais
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Saint-Gervais.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the resort map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Saint-Gervais before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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2020
A route reaches Saint-Gervais
2 additional new lifts are planned at present, one to link the thermal park to the town and the other to reduce traffic coming to the main cable car as it will link the mainline station in le Fayet to the main cable car and received the backing of the region in a visit in July 2020.
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Evasion Mont Blanc, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
View of the village Megève from the ski slopes, Haute-Savoie, France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- View of the village Megève from the ski slopes, Haute-Savoie, France
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
Therefore, the town and the ski area, which is the 3rd largest in France with 445 km of piste and includes Megève, Combloux, Les Contamines and La Giettaz avoid the heavy congestion of some of this resort's neighbours.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Saint-Gervais is recorded at 45.854° N, 6.712° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,353 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Open ledger · AOD.EU.SAINT-GERVAIS.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.EU.SAINT-GERVAIS.V00
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74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France - panoramio - 4net
74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- 74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
TODAY
Saint-Gervais now
It has 445 km (277 mi) of pistes, the third largest domain exclusively in France, and is one of the least busy ski areas of its size.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France - panoramio - 4net
AOD.EU.SAINT-GERVAIS.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Evasion Mont Blanc, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
AOD.EU.SAINT-GERVAIS.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Saint-Gervais-les-Bains overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.