Les Carroz

Arâches-la-Frasse

Commune

The church in Arâches-la-Frasse

Coat of arms

Arâches-la-Frasse

Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region

Arâches-la-Frasse

Coordinates: 46°02′39″N 6°37′56″E / 46.0442°N 6.6322°ECoordinates: 46°02′39″N 6°37′56″E / 46.0442°N 6.6322°E

Country

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Marc Iochum

Area¹

37.69 km² (14.55 sq mi)

Population (2014)²

1,909

• Density

51/km² (130/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

74014 /74300

Elevation

560–2,466 m (1,837–8,091 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arâches-la-Frasse is commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Situated in the northern French Alps, the commune sits on a large sunny plateau overlooking the Arve Valley southeast of the town of Cluses.

It is part of the canton of Sallanches. The main villages in the commune are Arâches, Les Carroz, and La Frasse.

Until the 1930s the village of Les Carroz was a simple farming hamlet with only a few houses. It is now developing into the nearest large ski resort to Geneva. By 1981 Les Carroz had been linked to the nearby ski villages of Samoëns, Morillon and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, and the resort of Flaine, developed in the 1960s. The Grand-Massif ski area had been born. The gondola and chairlift in Les Carroz can take skiers straight up to the extensive skiing in the Grand Massif.

Church

Chapel

Mission cross

War memorial

Fountain

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