Chalon-sur-Saône
Chalon-sur-Saône is a town in Saône-et-Loire. It is the largest city in the department and was a hub of road and river transport already as a Roman city.Photo: Benjism89, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: PhilippHofer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 45,000 residents
- Description: commune in Saône-et-Loire, France
- Also known as: “71076”, “Chalon-sur-Saone”, “Châlons-sur-Saône”, “Champfleury”, “Côme-la-Montagne”, “La Montagne”, “Montagne-lès-Chalon”, “Port-la-Montagne”, “Rochefort-la-Vigne (ou Rochefort-des-Vignes)”, “Saint-Cosme (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”, “Saint-Jean-des-Vignes (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”, and “Saint-Martin-des-Champs (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”
- Postal code: 71100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chalon-sur-Saône station and Nicéphore Niépce Museum.
Chalon-sur-Saône station
Railway station
Photo: Floflo, Public domain.
Gare de Chalon-sur-Saône is the railway station serving the town Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire department, eastern France. It is situated on the Paris–Marseille railway, at kilometre post 382.150 from Paris Gare de Lyon, and at an altitude of 179 m.
Nicéphore Niépce Museum
Museum
Photo: Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nicéphore Niépce Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of photography founded in 1972, officially designated a Musée de France, and dedicated to the inventor of photography Nicéphore Niépce.
Chalon Cathedral
Church
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chalon Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Chalon-sur-Saône. A former cathedral, it was the seat of the Bishop of Chalon. The diocese was abolished by the Concordat of 1801 and its territory absorbed by the Diocese of Autun.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Rémy and Châtenoy-le-Royal.
Saint-Rémy
Village
Photo: GdeLaB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Rémy is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Châtenoy-le-Royal
Village
Photo: AlexM71100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Châtenoy-le-Royal is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. It is a western suburb of Chalon-sur-Saône.
Lux
Village
Photo: Ksnow, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lux is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Chalon-sur-Saône
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Latitude
46.7831° or 46° 46′ 59″ northLongitude
4.8534° or 4° 51′ 12″ eastPopulation
45,000Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)Open location code
8FR6QVM3+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 26691977OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6450891Wikidata ID
Q203645
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chalon-sur-Saône” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Albanian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Arabic: “شالون سور سون”
- Aragonese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Armenian: “Շալոն սյուռ Սոն”
- Armenian: “Շալոն սյուր Սոն”
- Arpitan: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Asturian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Azerbaijani: “Şalon-sür-Son”
- Bambara: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Basque: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Bavarian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Belarusian: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Breton: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Cajun French: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Catalan: “Caballinum”
- Catalan: “Cabillonum”
- Catalan: “Chalon sur Saône”
- Catalan: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Catalan: “Chalon”
- Catalan: “Chalons-sur-Saone”
- Catalan: “Châlons-sur-Saône”
- Cebuano: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Chechen: “Шалон-суьгӀ-Сон”
- Chinese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Chinese: “索恩河畔沙隆”
- Chuvash: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Corsican: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Croatian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Czech: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Dagbani: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Danish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Dutch: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Dutch: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشالون سور ساون”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شالون سور ساون”
- Esperanto: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Esperanto: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Estonian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Faroese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Finnish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- French: “Chalon sur Saone”
- French: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- French: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- French: “Chalon-sur-Soane”
- French: “Chalons sur Saône”
- French: “Châlons-sur-Saône”
- French: “Champfleury”
- French: “Côme-la-Montagne”
- French: “La Montagne”
- French: “Montagne-lès-Chalon”
- French: “Port-la-Montagne”
- French: “Rochefort-la-Vigne (ou Rochefort-des-Vignes)”
- French: “Saint-Cosme (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”
- French: “Saint-Jean-des-Vignes (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”
- French: “Saint-Martin-des-Champs (réunie à Chalon-sur-Saône)”
- Friulian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Galician: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Georgian: “შალონ-სიურ-სონი”
- German: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- German: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- German: “Chalons-sur-Saone”
- German: “Châlons-sur-Saône”
- Greek: “Σαλόν-συρ-Σον”
- Hebrew: “שאלון-סור-סון”
- Hungarian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Icelandic: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Ido: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Indonesian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Interlingua: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Interlingue: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Irish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Italian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Japanese: “シャロン・シュル・ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロン・スュル・ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロン・スル・ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロン=シュル=ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロン=スュル=ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロン=スル=ソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロンシュルソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロンスュルソーヌ”
- Japanese: “シャロンスルソーヌ”
- Kabyle: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Kalaallisut: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Kazakh: “Şalon-syur-Son”
- Kazakh: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Kazakh: “شالون-سيۋر-سون”
- Kongo: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Korean: “샬롱쉬르손”
- Kurdish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Ladin: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Latin: “Cabillonum”
- Latin: “Cavillonum”
- Latvian: “Šalona pie Sonas”
- Ligurian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Limburgan: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Lithuanian: “Šalonas prie Sonos”
- Low German: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Luxembourgish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Macedonian: “Шалон на Саон”
- Mainfränkisch: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Malagasy: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Malay: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Mazanderani: “شلون سور سئون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Minangkabau: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Moksha: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Narom: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Neapolitan: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Northern Frisian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chalon sur Saone”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Norwegian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chalon de Sòna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Ossetian: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Papiamento: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Persian: “شالون-سور-سون”
- Persian: “شلون سور سئون”
- Picard: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Piemontese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Polish: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Polish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Portuguese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Prussian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Romagnol: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Romanian: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Romanian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Romansh: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Russian: “Шалон на Соне”
- Russian: “Шалон-на-Соне”
- Russian: “Шалон-сюр-Саон”
- Russian: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Sardinian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Scots: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Serbian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Serbian: “Šalon sir Saon”
- Serbian: “Шалон сир Саон”
- Serbian: “Шалон сир Сон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Sicilian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Silesian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Slovak: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Slovenian: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Slovenian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- South Azerbaijani: “شالون-سور-سون”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur Saona”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur Saone”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur Saône”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur-Saona”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur-Saone”
- Spanish: “Chalon sur-Saône”
- Spanish: “Chalon-sur-Saona”
- Spanish: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Spanish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Swahili: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Swedish: “Chalon-sur-Saone”
- Swedish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Swiss German: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Turkish: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Ukrainian: “Шалон-сюр-Сон”
- Uzbek: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Venetian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Vietnamese: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Vlaams: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Volapük: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Walloon: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Welsh: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Western Frisian: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Wolof: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- Wu Chinese: “索恩河畔沙隆”
- Yue Chinese: “索恩河畔沙隆”
- Zulu: “Chalon-sur-Saône”
- “Chalon-sur-Saône”
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