Sallanches

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Sallanches (French pronunciation: [salɑ̃ʃ]; Arpitan: Salenches) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of France. Located close to the Mont Blanc massif, many visitors pass through the town en route to well-known alpine resorts such as Chamonix, Megève and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. Sallanches is also one of the towns in the Arve Valley, made popular by the presence of many high-tech industries. Over 300 retail stores are located in Sallanches, making the town a commercial hub. In 2018, the commune had a population of 16,508, and its urban area had 46,128 inhabitants.In 2015 Sallanches hospital announced that, as part of the government's "groupements hospitaliers de territoire" policy, it would develop a specialist accident department to research and develop mountain-related emergency medicine, because of its proximity to, and past experience of, dealing with accidents occurring in the nearby high mountains. With an emergency team of 30 doctors and emergency staff, plus 50 support staff, it is expected that the new mountain medicine department will become a world-leader in developing treatments and researching into altitude sickness, frostbite, hypoxia, trauma-injuries and related sports medicine.

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Rue de Boccard, Bonneville

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74700 Bonneville
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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1964 UCI Road World Championships

The 1964 UCI Road World Championships took place from 3 to 6 September 1964 in Sallanches, France.

Sallanches-Combloux-Megève station

Sallanches-Combloux-Megève station (French: Gare de Sallanches-Combloux-Megève) is a railway station in the commune of Sallanches, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the standard gauge La Roche-sur-Foron–Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet line of SNCF.

Canton of Sallanches

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Sallanches Aerodrome

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Domancy

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Combloux

Combloux (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃blu]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. A mountain village in the French Alps, it is also popular as a ski resort. Combloux is located 4 km (2.5 mi) from Megève and 30 km (19 mi) from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

Oëx

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Passy, Haute-Savoie

Passy (French pronunciation: [pasi] ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is part of the urban area of Sallanches.Located there is the Sancellemoz sanatorium, where Professor Marie Curie died in 1934. Lac Vert is located in the commune. The commune has a railway station, Chedde, on the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line.

Refuge de Véran

Refuge de Véran is a refuge in the Alps.

Tête du Colonney

Tête du Colonney (French pronunciation: [tɛt dy kɔlɔnɛ]; 2,692 m) is a mountain in the Chablais Alps in Haute-Savoie, France. Standing above the Plateau d'Assy, the mountain provides unobscured views of Mont Blanc to the southeast from its summit. It can be reached by cable car in the winter from Flaine.

Canton of Le Mont-Blanc

The canton of Le Mont-Blanc (French: Canton du Mont-Blanc) is an administrative division of the Haute-Savoie department, Southeastern France. It elects two members of the Departmental Council of Haute-Savoie, known as departmental councillors (conseillers départementaux). It was created at the 2014 cantonal reorganisation process, which came into effect for the 2015 departmental election. Its seat is Passy, its most populated commune.The canton consists of the following communes within the arrondissement of Bonneville, on the border with both Italy and Switzerland: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Les Contamines-Montjoie Les Houches Passy Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Servoz VallorcineThe canton of Le Mont-Blanc was created from the former cantons of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (four communes) and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (three communes). It was named after Mont Blanc.