Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières | |
Arrondissement: | Bonneville |
Canton: | Bonneville |
Insee: | 74212 |
Postal Code: | 74130 |
Commune: | Glières-Val-de-Borne |
Coordinates: | 46.0006°N 6.3961°W |
Elevation M: | 732 |
Elevation Min M: | 591 |
Elevation Max M: | 2408 |
Area Km2: | 53.42 |
Population: | 1126 |
Population Date: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (pronounced as /fr/), commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged with its neighbour village Entrement to form the new commune of Glières-Val-de-Borne.[2]
Petit Bornand has a number of dairy farms, tourist accommodations and secondary residences. It is in the area which is authorised to produce the named soft cheese "roblochon"http://www.entremont-village.com/village_culturereblochonaravis.html
Guillaume Fichet (1433-c. 1480) was born in this village. With Johann Heynlin, Fichet set up the first printing press in France in 1470.