Chambéry

The city and arrondissement of Chambéry in Savoie, France, has been the historical capital of Savoy since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made it his seat. It had a population of 55,786 in 1999.

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Arrondissement - Savoie - France - Savoy - Amadeus V of Savoy

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Chambéry is home to the 13th Battalion of the Chasseurs Alpins.

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The city was founded at crossroads of ancient routes among Burgundy, Switzerland and Italy, and is still a major railroad hub, at the center of the Lyon-Turin rail link in the hands of the Franco-Italian "Lyon Turin Ferroviaire." It lies at the heart of a municipal agglomeration of more than 100,000 inhabitants, in a valley between the Bauges and the Chartreuse, extending towards the vineyard slopes of the Combe de Savoie to the south and almost to the shores of the Lake of Bourget—the largest natural lake in France—to the north.

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Chartreuse - Lake of Bourget

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The history of Chambéry is closely linked to the House of Savoy, the Savoy capital from 1295 to 1563. When Duke Emmanuel Philibert moved their main seat to Turin in 1563, Chambéry declined. When Savoy was returned to the House of Savoy in 1815, a need for some urban revitalization was met by the establishment in 1820 of the Société Académique de Savoie devoted to material and ethical progress, now housed in an apartment of the ducal Chateau.

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House of Savoy - Emmanuel Philibert - Turin

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