Prop

Échalas is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.

NB: In Vine growing, a prop is a variable pole length to which one attaches a Cep Vigne. With appeared: “It is a true prop”, says somebody who is thin and thin.

Geography

South of Lyon 1228 inhabitants: Chalarons Surface: 2095 hectares

History

Above the valley of Gier, at 5 minutes of the city, on the first plates of Pilat, the commune of Prop is made up of small hamlets, which offer very beautiful panoramas on the Mounts of the Lyonese and the plate of Mornant. Very many paths marked out at the beginning of the place of the church make it possible to discover these landscapes. It is imagined that the origin of the name of this common refers to the piles which support the stocks in the area, because in 1900, the commune accommodated 250 hectares of vines and a wine distilling. But name could also come from a deformation of the word " scale " because of escarpée situation of the borough, which one realizes while going down in the first combe, called " combe of the hell ". But it is a paradise for the walkers: four marked out pedestrian paths propose a review of the commune and surrounding nature, to discover with the liking of stroll, the old houses, a strange virgin of wood in a small niche, the culminating point of the commune to 560 meters (the fart of the wolf). One cannot pass in Echalas without visiting the Saint Martin's day church. Time and we into 850, date find go up on which the monks built a small vault and cleared the site of the village. Towards the beginning of the 13th century, the lord of Prop, which returned from a crusade, made build a Gothique vault hones some being able to accommodate 150 people and who was completed in 1221. It paid it its sums of money and put its blazon, like signature, with the keystone of the chorus and the top of the south-eastern buttress. About 1550, to protect will chalarons them incursions of the brigands and plague, the Michon family made build the massive bell-tower of Roman style, and the vault under the bell-tower. This vault is dedicated to Notre Dame of Piety.

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Rhone

External bonds

  • Prop on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Prop on the site of INSEE
  • Prop on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Prop on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Prop on Mapquest

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