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22 unusual facts about Chambéry


1989 UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial

The women's team time trial of the 1989 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 23 August 1989 in Chambéry, France.

Anne de Guigné

Anne's father was Count Jacques de Guigné, second lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Chambéry of Chasseurs Alpins.

Beatrice of Bâgé

They took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; He died two years later.

CAMIVA

CAMIVA, an initialism for Constructeurs Associés de Matériels d'Incendie, Voirie et Aviation, (English for Associated Constructors of Fire Equipment, Roads and Aviation) is a French company which specializes in equipment for fire and rescue founded in 1970, near Chambéry, in Saint-Alban-Leysse in the department of Savoie, France.

Classic rally

For example, Monte Carlo Rally had long sections running through the Chartreuse mountains between Chambéry and Grenoble before crossing the Rhone valley and continuing in what was often the deeply snowbound and ice covered Ardeche, all in the same night.

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

Élie Ossipovitch

Élie Ossipovitch (1987) a is French western classical guitarist, who studied in the Conservatory of Chambéry, and followed private lessons with prominent French classical guitarists.

Five Holy Wounds

The Rosary of the Holy Wounds (also called the Chaplet of Holy Wounds), was first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a lay Roman Catholic Sister of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France as a focus on the Holy Wounds of Jesus.

Fréjus Rail Tunnel

The Fréjus tunnel remains today as an important link in the connection between Rome and Paris, via Turin and Chambéry.

Gabriella Ambrosio

and was awarded at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambéry, France.

Grégory Lemarchal

Growing up near Chambéry, Gregory Lemarchal enjoyed sports such as basketball and football, and even considered becoming involved in sport journalism.

Jean-Claude Blanc

Jean-Claude Blanc (born on 9 April 1963 in Chambéry, France) is a marketing executive and former CEO of Juventus Football Club.

King Victor and King Charles

He will take the name Count Tende and spend his retirement in Chambéry, 150 km away in the extreme northwest of Savoy.

Malika Benarab-Attou

She mvoed to Chambéry in 2006 in the Savoie region of South-East France.

Norway women's national under-18 ice hockey team

The team would enter 2009 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division I, which were held in Chambéry, France from 28 December 2008 to 2 January 2009.

Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi

It was then acquired by Emmanuel Philibert in 1563, when the ducal capital was moved from Chambéry to Turin.

The hunting park that belonged to a branch of the House of Savoia was given to Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy in 1563, when he moved the capital of the duke from Chambéry to Turin.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Grenoble-Vienne

Before the French Revolution it was a suffragan diocese of the archbishopric of Vienne and included the deanery or see at Savoy, which in 1779, was made a bishopric in its own right, with the see at Chambéry.

SNCF BB 1-80

Between 1948 and 1950 28 of the class were sent to the depot at Chambéry to help with increased traffic between France and Italy, on the Ligne de la Maurienne (French).

St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal

Founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills, Bhopal.

Tanya Holland

In France, she trained with Michel Sarran at Le Mas Du Langoustier on the Island of Porquerolles and with Jean-Michel Bouvier at Restaurant L’Essential in Chambéry.

Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia

Taking the style of King Victor Amadeus, he and Anna moved into the château de Chambéry outside the capital.


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Amadeus V, Count of Savoy

# Beatrice of Savoy, called Beatrice of Bâgé, she married in 1289 to Giacomo de Candia, Lord of Bresse and Count of Ventimiglia, and took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; they had a son François de Candie; and after becoming a widow, she re-married to Manfred III of Saluzzo

Djan Silveberg

In 1995 and 1996, ‘Quelques Vers de Rome – MXMXCIV’ was presented as a personal exhibition in La Ravoire, Chambery, La Motte Servolex and finally in Lyon during the G7 Summit.

L'Épine

Chaîne de l'Épine, a mountain ridge in the department of Savoie, near Chambéry

Opinel knife

The company hired peddlers to sell the knives and opened a small shop near the Chambéry railway junction, where the knives became popular with PLM railroad workers, who in turn spread word of the brand throughout France.

SNCF Class BB 20004

This was however no real problem, as these locomotives operated only on Aix-les-Bains - Annecy and only needed the 1.5kV DC to pull trains into the station of Aix-les-Bains or to drive to their depot in Chambéry.

Transport in Cornwall

It offers or will soon offer flights up-country to Bristol, Leeds, London (Gatwick), Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Southampton, Cardiff and the Isle of Man, and to destinations abroad including Chambéry, Dublin, Geneva, Reus, St. Brieuc, Düsseldorf, Girona, Alicante, and a summer service to Zürich.

University of Savoy

The University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an école préparatoire, a school preparing students to go there.

Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat

Yolande Palaiologina or Violant (Moncalvo, June 1318 – Chambery, December 24, 1342) was the daughter of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat and Argentina Spinola, a Genoese lady, daughter of Opicino Spinola.