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 Situated between La Roche et Reignier, on the western fringe of the Pays Rochois, the village of Cornier nestles discreetly in the wooded traverse of the Plaine des Rocailles. The attentive visitor will find many surprises in the surrounding countryside.
He can enjoy the diversity of its landscapes terraced between the farmland of the Arve Valley and the forest of Moussy which backs on to the massif des Bornes.
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Its hamlets are the result of a rich historical past. Le Châtelet de Crédoz, small village and seat of a manor of the lords of Faucigny, hemmed in on the left bank of the Arve , offers a vision of the past with its dungeon and mills. At the end of the Middle Ages administration was transferred to the small group of dwellings bunched around the church , better situated at the edge of the cereal-growing terraces of the main village. |
La Madeleine,at the limits of the lowlands and orchards, owes its name to the maladière de Vège under the patronage of the repentant saint.
Moussy inherited an area which was constituted by the order of Saint John’s Knights under the authority of the Commanderie de Compesières near Geneva. |
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The chapel remains one of the rare vestiges of the Romanesque period in Northern Savoy.
Of its rural past the commune has preserved a score of farmers among whom stand out a few specialists who enhance their produce by know-how which has earned a label of quality. |
The village area, once crossed by medieval roads that , from the plateau des Bornes, converged on Geneva and the Chablais , still drains the Annecy- Route Blanche traffic by the A41 motorway loop. The E.D.F centre and the micro- parks of the craft industry also benefit from its position.
A future in green tourism is taking shape thanks to the increasing number of gîtes situated near animal leisure activities (horses, ostriches….).
Surface area : 678 ha
Altitude : 506 m
No. of inhabitants : 963 hts
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