Virieu (Isère)
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| local community | Val-de-Virieu | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Isère | |
| Arrondissement | La Tour-du-Pin | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 27 ' N , 5 ° 30' E | |
| Post Code | 38730 | |
| Former INSEE code | 38560 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-virieu.fr/ | |
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Virieu (also: Virieu-sur-Bourbre ) is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Val-de-virieu with 1,093 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Isère in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes .
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Virieu merged with Panissage to form the Commune nouvelle Val-de-Virieu. It belonged to the arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin and was part of the canton of Le Grand-Lemps (until 2015: canton of Virieu ).
geography
Virieu is located about 58 kilometers east-southeast of Lyon . The Commune déléguée is located on the Bourbre , which borders the Commune déléguée in the north and northwest. The municipality of Virieu was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Panissage in the north and north-west, Chélieu in the north, Valencogne in the north-east, Le Pin in the east, Oyeu in the south, Burcin in the south and south-west, Châbons in the south-west and Blandin in the west.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 | |
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| 716 | 761 | 828 | 950 | 954 | 940 | 973 | 1.109 | |
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Attractions
- Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul church
- Virieu Castle, built around 1010, has been a monument historique since 1965/1990
