Miribel-les-Échelles is a French commune with 1,763 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Isère in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Grenoble and is part of the canton of Chartreuse-Guiers (until 2015: canton of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont ). The inhabitants are called Miribelain (ne) s .
geography
Miribel-les-Échelles is located around 26 kilometers north of Grenoble in the Chartreuse Mountains . The Guiers flows along the northeastern edge of the municipality . Miribel-les-Échelles is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Béron in the north, Saint-Franc in the northeast, Les Échelles in the east and northeast, Entre-deux-Guiers in the east, Saint-Laurent-du-Pont in the southeast, and Saint-Joseph -de-Rivière in the south, Saint-Aupre in the south-west, Merlas in the west and Voissant in the north-west. The municipality is located in the Chartreuse Regional Nature Park .
Population development
| year |
1962 |
1968 |
1975 |
1982 |
1990 |
1999 |
2006 |
2012
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| Residents |
1,218 |
1,209 |
1,245 |
1,442 |
1,607 |
1,708 |
1,733 |
1,740
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| Source: Cassini and INSEE
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Attractions
- Saint-Maurice church, built at the end of the 19th century
- Saint-Roch chapel from 1631
- Notre-Dame chapel, part of a palace complex that was destroyed in 1595
- The so-called druid stones
- bridge
Personalities
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