La Mure

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Coordinates: 44°54′14″N 5°47′17″E / 44.903889, 5.788056

Commune of La Mure
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	La Mure (Chief town)
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Matheysine
Mayor	Fabrice Marchiol (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	720 m–1,204 m (avg. 886 m)
Land area¹	8 km²
Population² (1999)	5,190
- Density	623/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	38269/ 38350
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Mure is a town and commune in the southern part of the Isère département in south-east France. It is located 35km south of Grenoble on the plateau Matheysin.

At the 1999 census, the population was 5,188 inhabitants.

Contents 1 Neighbour Communes 2 Main sights 3 Miscellaneous 3.1 Sister city 3.2 Births 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Neighbour Communes

• Prunières
• Sousville
• Susville
• Ponsonnas
• Pierre-Châtel
• Saint-Honoré

[edit] Main sights

• The Chemin de fer de la Mure is a small touristic train using a railway initially built for the transportation of coal between Saint-Georges-de-Commiers and La Mure. The line was inaugurated on July 24^th, 1888.

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Sister city

• Marktredwitz, Germany

[edit] Births

• Saint Pierre-Julien Eymard, Roman Catholic priest founder of Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and canonized in 1962, is born in la Mure on February 4^th 1811.

[edit] See also

• Route Napoléon

[edit] External links

• La Mure official site in French
• Site of the plateau matheysin in French
• Site of the La Mure train and railway
• La Mure official tourism office in French

Coordinates: 44°90′N, 5°79′E