Cran-Gevrier
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Cran-Gevrier is a French common, located in the administrative division of Haute-Savoie in the Rhone-Alps area.
[edit] Geography
Cran-Gevrier is in the east of Annecy. Part of the city is on a hill (hill of Gevrier). The hamlet of Cran was on the level of Thiou. The top of the hill of Gevrier is designated as a natural preserve.
[edit] History
The city draws its origins from two hamlets: Cran and Gevrier.
There are two possible origins for each one of these names:
- Cran which means “notch” (allowed the establishment of a road between Boutae (Annecy) and Aquae (Aix-the-Baths), or between two water (between Thiou and the Proud one).
- Gevrier, the oldest hamlet, got its name either from the Grabriaccus villa, or of the word “guivre”, the name of a mythical snake whose role in the tales is to keep the treasures (one finds a snake rolled up around a sword on the blazon of the lords of Aléry).
The Romans were the first to settle on the hill. A Roman villa and a theatre were built there.
