Brides-les-Bains

Brides-les-Bains
The Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains railway station
Coat of arms
Brides-les-Bains
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Brides-les-Bains
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Savoie
Arrondissement	Albertville
Canton	Bozel
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Denise Shelley
Area1	2.63 km2 (1.02 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	597
• Density	230/km2 (590/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	73057 / 73570
Elevation	556–1,040 m (1,824–3,412 ft) (avg. 580 m or 1,900 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Brides-les-Bains is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

It was an Olympic Village for the 1992 Winter Olympics, based in Albertville, France.

It is a popular holiday destination for English tourists, owing to its easy accessibility via Eurostar direct from London and its cable-car link direct to the ski slopes at Méribel, a major resort eight miles (13 km) away.

Although Brides-les-Bains' main attraction to tourists is its convenience for Méribel, the village boasts a few attractions, including several health spas and a casino, and a few sites of historic or cultural interest, including the springs from which the town takes its name, a medieval church and a statue made out of piping titled "La Manche de Chapeau" (French: "The Sleeve of a Hat").

See also

• Communes of the Savoie department

References

• INSEE