ARâCHES-LA-FRASSE

'Arâches-la-Frasse' is a commune of Haute-Savoie in the northern French Alps. The commune is part of the ''canton'' of Cluses, and the commune sits on a large sunny plateau overlooking the Arve Valley southeast of the town of Cluses. In the 1999 census the commune had a population of 1,724 inhabitants for a total surface area of 3767 hectares (14½ square miles). The main villages in the commune are Les Carroz, Arâches and La Frasse.

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Les Carroz

Les Carroz

Until the 1930s the village of Les Carroz was a simple farming hamlet with only a few houses. It is now the beginning of the nearest large ski resort to Geneva. By 1981 Les Carroz had been linked to the nearby ski villages of Samoëns, Morillon and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, and the resort of Flaine that had been developed in the 1960’s - the Grand-Massif ski area had been born.