Chambery is a beautiful town in the western Alps
located
in southeastern France.
It is the largest city and the Prefecture of the Department Savoie (73)
part of the Auvergne Rhone Alpes region.
The city is located at the foot of the French Alps
between the Chartreuse and the Bauges mountain ranges.
In the 13th century Chambery
has been the capital of Savoie
once an independant county
and state of the Holy Roman Empire.
Savoi was annexed by France in 1860.
