Viry | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois |
Canton: | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois |
Insee: | 74309 |
Postal Code: | 74580 |
Mayor: | Laurent Chevalier[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC du Genevois |
Coordinates: | 46.1183°N 6.0383°W |
Elevation M: | 503 |
Elevation Min M: | 357 |
Elevation Max M: | 755 |
Area Km2: | 26.16 |
Viry (in French pronounced as /viʁi/; Vry) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Viry is the birthplace of Justin de Viry, a Sardinian and French diplomat and politician. He is still the only Savoyard to be buried in the Panthéon.[2] During the World War, Viry was one of the border towns with Switzerland through which many Jews fleeing Nazism passed.