| Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | |
| Commune Status: | Subprefecture and commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie).svg |
| Arrondissement: | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
| Canton: | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
| Insee: | 73248 |
| Postal Code: | 73300 |
| Mayor: | Philippe Rollet[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Cœur de Maurienne Arvan |
| Coordinates: | 45.2729°N 6.3484°W |
| Elevation M: | 566 |
| Elevation Min M: | 489 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1200 |
| Area Km2: | 11.51 |
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də mɔʁjɛn/; Sent-Jian-de-Môrièna or Sant-Jian-de-Môrièna; Italian: San Giovanni di Moriana) is a subprefecture of the Savoie department, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (formerly Rhône-Alpes), in southeastern France.
It lies in the Maurienne, the valley of the river Arc. It was also an Episcopal See of Savoy during the Ancien Régime and again from 1825 to 1966. Its original name was simply Maurienne, or Moriana in Italian and Latin.
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is located at the confluence of the Arc, a river which has shaped the Maurienne Valley, and the which descends the Arves Valley (Col de la Croix de Fer).
The neighbouring communes of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne are Saint-Julien-Mont-Denis, Jarrier, Hermillon, Villargondran, Albiez-le-Jeune, Albiez-Montrond, Saint-Pancrace and Pontamafrey-Montpascal.
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is close to Albertville (59 km), Chambery (72 km), Grenoble (103 km), Turin (137 km) and Lyon (174 km).
The climate is the alpine type because of the presence of the Alpine Massif.
| City | Sunshine | Rain | Snow | Storm | Fog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1797 hrs/yr | 642mm/yr | 15 days/yr | 19 days/yr | 13 days/yr | |
| 2694 hrs/yr | 767mm/yr | 1 day/yr | 31 days/yr | 1 day/yr | 1637 hrs/yr | 610mm/yr | 30 days/yr | 29 days/yr | 65 days/yr |
| Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | 1970 hrs/yr | 960mm/yr | ... days/yr | ... days/yr | ... days/yr | National average | 1973 hrs/yr | 770mm/yr | 14 days/yr | 22 days/yr | 40 days/yr |
See main article: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne station. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is on the route of the future Lyon-Turin rail link. Homes, businesses, the current railway station and the rescue centre are affected by the project. The Lyon Turin Railway company (LTF) which manages the construction projects plans to build new railway station in the Sous-le-Bourg neighborhood, serving both the historic line and the new Lyon-Turin line. Geological and topographical investigations are underway. The project promises to be even more complex than that of the Channel Tunnel.
The town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is equipped with a network of public transport run by the .[2]
A heliport is available for the helicopter of the gendarmerie whose base is located in Modane.
La Bastille, Les Chaudannes and Les Clapeys are the three main quarters.
The total number of dwellings in the commune is 4,240.[3] Among such housing, 87.9% are principal residences, 5.4% are secondary homes and 6.7% are vacant dwellings. These accommodations have a share of 17.5% as individual houses, 79.3% as apartments and finally only 3.2% as dwellings of another type. The number of residents who own their homes is 37.9%. This is lower than the national average which adds up to nearly 55.3%. The number of tenants is 56.7% throughout the housing which is higher than the national average of 39.8%. It may be noted also that 5.4% of the inhabitants of the commune are people who are housed for free while at the level of the whole of the France the percentage is 4.9%. Still on all of the municipality housing, 3.5% are studios, 11.5% are two-room housing, 28.4% have three, 34.5% of dwellings have four rooms, and 22.1% of dwellings have five rooms or more.
The locality named is after John the Baptist, the precursor, son of Zechariah and Saint Elizabeth, cousin of Jesus, beheaded in 31 AD at the request of the Princess Salome.
The Latin name is Mauriana.
See main article: County of Maurienne. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne has been the capital of the Maurienne Valley since the 6th century. After Saint Thècle reported from Alexandria (Egypt) the relics of St. John the Baptist, which are the three fingers represented on the arms of the city, as well as on the Opinel knife blades, the town was raised to the rank of diocese by Guntram, grandson of Clovis I.
In 753, Grifo went to Italy to join the King of the Lombards, Aistulf, the most powerful opponent of his half-brother, the King of the Franks, Pepin the Short, but he was killed at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne by the men of Pepin.
The oldest possessions of the Counts of Savoy were the counties of Maurienne, Savoy proper (the district between Arc, Isère, and the middle course of the Rhone), and Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.
The Duchy of Savoy, which had been a French-speaking province under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, was invaded by Revolutionary France, but restored to Piedmont in 1815. It became part of France in 1859, after the Second Italian War of Independence.
The Aix-les-Bains—Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne railway opened in 1857.[4]
In the early 1900s, the technological advances of Swiss hydroelectric power were originally the subject of intense stock market speculation on hydroelectric companies, which benefitted the Maurienne Valley with industrial facilities, and tourism took off.
The city of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is a sub-prefecture of Savoie. It is the seat of the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, the canton of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and the .[5] [6]
The city of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is part of the .
Traditionally, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne has been a stronghold of the Socialist left from the 1930s because of the importance of its worker labor pool. Thus, Roland Merloz was the Socialist mayor from 1977 to 2008. But since the 1990s and sociological changes in the Maurienne (departure of factories, multiplication of tourist resorts, decrease of the population with an increase in representation of the elderly), the right-wing vote has increased. A UMP Councillor General, Pierre-Marie Charvoz, was elected in 2001, Nicolas Sarkozy was in the lead in the two rounds of the presidential elections of 2007, with respectively 33.5% and 56.62%, and in 2008, Pierre-Marie Charvoz won the communal elections.
The city council of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne has 29 members. It is composed of a mayor, seven assistants, four delegate councillors and seventeen councillors.
Roland Merloz, mayor of the city since 1977, announced his desire not to stand in 2008.
The following is the share of seats in the municipal council of Saint Jean de Maurienne:
| Party | Main candidate | Seats | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Marie Charvoz | 23 | Majority | ||||
| Union of the Left | Hervé Bottino | 6 | Opposition |
In the municipal elections of March 2008, turnout of the first round was 65.46% with a total of 5,310 people registered to vote in the commune. The number of voters amounted to 3,476 voters which 3,393 expressed themselves. In the first round, the presidential majority list of Ensemble pour Saint Jean [Together for Sain Jean] with its head, Pierre-Marie Charvoz collected 46.95% of the vote or 1,593 votes. Followed by the list of "Saint Jean 10,000" led by Hervé Bottino, having received 34.39% of the vote or 1,169 votes. In third position, Saint Jean à venir [Saint Jean to come] list, headed by Christine Merlin got 13.26% of the votes or 450 votes. Finally the list Vivons Saint Jean [Live Saint Jean], led by Florence Arnoux Le Bras got 5.39% or 183 votes.
In the second round, the turnout was 68.57%. The number of voters amounted to 3,642 voters with 3,509 expressing themselves. In the second round, the presidential majority list of Ensemble pour Saint Jean with its head, Pierre-Marie Charvoz collected 55.40% of the vote or 1,944 votes and won 23 seats. The list of "Saint Jean 10 000" conducted by Hervé Bottino, received 44.60% of the vote or 1,565 votes and was therefore awarded 6 seats. The other lists were not present in the second round.
| 1860 | 1862 | Cyrille Richard | ... | Mayor | |
| 1862 | 1865 | Antoine Mottard | ... | Mayor | |
| 1865 | 1870 | Cyrille Richard | ... | Mayor | |
| 1870 | 1870 | Alexis Magnin | ... | Provisional mayor | |
| 1870 | 1874 | Maurice Petit | ... | Mayor | |
| 1874 | 1876 | Cyrille Richard | ... | Mayor | |
| 1876 | 1881 | Ignace Deleglise | ... | Mayor | |
| 1881 | 1904 | Florimond Truchet | ... | Mayor | |
| 1904 | 1911 | Joseph Vuillermet | ... | Mayor | |
| 1911 | 1912 | Charles Bonnivard | ... | Mayor | |
| 1912 | 1935 | ... | Mayor, député | ||
| 1935 | 1938 | Alphonse Thibieroz | ... | Mayor | |
| 1938 | 1943 | Jean-Pierre Bouttaz | ... | Mayor | |
| 1943 | 1944 | Guido Fodéré | ... | Mayor | |
| 1944 | 1945 | Georges Beaufils | ... | Mayor | |
| 1945 | 1953 | Conseiller général, député | |||
| 1953 | 1971 | Samuel Pasquier | UNR | Mayor | |
| 1971 | 1977 | Charles Gubian | UNR | Mayor | |
| 1977 | 2008 | Roland Merloz | Conseiller général | ||
| 2008 | 2020 | Pierre-Marie Charvoz | Mayor/Conseiller général | ||
| 2020 | In progress | Philippe Rollet | ... | Mayor |
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is twinned with:[7]
Giaveno, Italy, since 2013The population structure of the commune of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in 2017:[8]
The total number of households in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is 3,729. These households are not all equal in numbers of individuals. Some of these households contain one, others two, three, four, five or even more than six people. Here, below, is the data as a percentage of the distribution of these households, compared to the total number of households.
| 1 person | 2 people | 3 people | 4 people | 5 people | 6+ people | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | 32.9% | 31.8% | 16.8% | 13.4% | 3.5% | 1.6% | |
| National average | 31% | 31.1% | 16.2% | 13.8% | 5.5% | 2.4% | |
| Data sources: INSEE[9] | |||||||
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Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is located close to some of the major Alpine passes, and of the Les Sybelles ski area and the Vanoise National Park. Activities are available for nature and sports enthusiasts, both hikers and cyclists, as well as skiers. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne provides access to the Croix-de-Fer, the Télégraphe, the Lautaret, the Grand Cucheron, the Madeleine, the Glandon, the Iseran, Mont Cenis and the Galibier mountain passes. The city regularly hosts major cycling races such as the Tour de France or the Critérium du Dauphiné. The Tour de France came to the commune during the 2006, 2010, and 2012 races. The 2015 Tour de France had a stage finish in the commune on 23 July, at the end of stage 18. The following day, it was the departure point for stage 19.Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne was last visited for the Tour in the 2019 Tour de France
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The unemployment rate for the commune, in 1999, amounted to 8.8%,[12] with a total number of 359 unemployed. The workforce between 20 and 59 years stood at 84%, which is higher than the national average at 82.2%. There were 46% of people employed versus 19.1% of retirees, whose number is slightly higher than the average national (18.2%). There were 21.9% of people of school age and 13% of people without activity.
| Agriculture | Artisans, merchants, business leaders | Executives, intellectual professions | Associate professionals | Employees | Manual workers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | 0% | 6.9% | 7.5% | 20.2% | 28.7% | 36.8% | |
| National average | 2.4% | 6.4% | 12.1% | 22.1% | 29.9% | 27.1% | |
| Data sources: INSEE[13] | |||||||
Alcan (ex-Pechiney): Currently, an important activity of production of aluminium by electrolysis of alumina still exists thanks to a Trimet France factory. The factory celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.
With tourism growing through the winter sport resorts and the proximity of the major passes of the Alps and of the Vanoise National Park, local commerce is a new dynamic.
The Clos Carloz and the recreation area of the Combe are the main green spaces in the city. There is also the Garden of Europe and the Saint Ayrald Garden.
The commune has several museums:
Notable cultural associations:
In 2014, the commune of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne has the "Floral City" label with "three flowers" awarded by the National Council of floral cities and villages of France in the Concours des villes et villages fleuris.[15]
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