Saint Chamond

Saint-Chamond is a collective in the Loire office in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes area in focal France. The town dates to the Roman time frame. It lies in an iron and coal district, which were the premise of modern development amid the 19th and 20th century. The same number of the mines and processing plants shut in the late twentieth century due to rebuilding, there was lost employments and populace; by 2010 the populace had declined to around 35,000 from a high of more than 40,000 out of 1982.

Saint- Chamond is situated in the Gier valley between the Monts du Lyonnais toward the north and Mont Pilat toward the south. The pinnacle of Perdrix, at 1,434 meters 4,705 ft is the most elevated in the Pilat massif. The "Saut du Gier" cascade is in the Pilat Regional Natural Park. The pinnacle of Oeillon gives perspectives on the Rhone valley, and once in a while of the Mont-Blanc massif.

The city created on the two sides of the Gier River, which source is on Mont Pilat. The stream streams east down the Gier valley for 44 kilometers before entering the Rhone at Givors. The stream was secured over inside the city. The present city of Saint-Chamond is the aftereffect of the merger in 1964 of the collectives of Saint-Martin-en-Coailleux, Saint-Julien-en-Jarez, Izieux and Saint-Chamond. The new town is the third-biggest town in the Loire, with just about 40,000 occupants.