the Saint-Étienne–Lyon railway, first passenger railway in France, built in 1828-33. Rive-de-Gier houses what was probably the first railway tunnel made...

a seismic sensor station was built in the old railway tunnel in Badol (a hamlet east of Saint-Sauveur-en-Rue). Its importance has increased since 1993...

is in the Gier valley just north of the river, between Rive-de-Gier to the west and Saint-Romain-en-Gier to the east. The village dates back to the Roman...