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Roanne was one of the first towns served by railroad, with the opening, 15 March 1833, of the terminal on the right bank at the port of Varennes of the third line, from Andrézieux. Following came the opening of the canal from Roanne to Digoin (1838), which placed the city in the forefront of the French Industrial Revolution.
Article History. Roanne, town, Loire département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France, on the Loire River. The town is located 40 miles (64 km) west-northwest of Lyon. Founded in the Romano-Gallic age, it was originally called Rodumna. The 11th-century castle-donjon is the only surviving remnant of its ancient castle.
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Roanne was one of the first towns served by railroad, with the opening, 15 March 1833, of the terminal on the right bank at the port of Varennes of the third line, from Andrézieux. Following came the opening of the canal from Roanne to Digoin (1838), which placed the city in the forefront of the French Industrial Revolution.
With its colorful facades and banks on the banks of the Loire, it blows like an air of dolce vita in Roanne. The city varies the pleasures and pampers its visitors, offering so many delicacies, testifying to its history (industrial and textile in particular) or simply inviting to explore its heritage and nature close by.
Roanne (Rodomna, or Roidomna) was an ancient city of the Segusiani and a station on the great Roman road from Lyons to the ocean. In 1447 the lordship of Roannais became the property of the celebrated banker Jacques Coeur, from whom it passed as the result of a law-suit to the family of Gouffier.
Located on the banks of the Loire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Roanne is a city rich with more than 2000 years of history. The one called Rodumna, in the Gallo-Roman period, still retains many traces of this glorious past, through its monuments, but also its culture.
Roanne is in the eastern-center of France at 72 kilometres from Saint-Etienne, the department capital (general information: Roanne is 338 kilometres from Paris). Geographical Information Commune: Roanne
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