Pont du Sablon

About

The bridge of the Sablon is a bridge between Grenoble and La Tronche. It connects the Green Island district of Grenoble to the district of La Tronche, where the cemetery of the Great Sablon and the inter-municipal funeral centre are located. It was built in 1939, three years after the construction of the former Charles Berty Stadium, near Paul-Mistral Park, to meet the demands of the soldiers who had given up the land.

They wanted to have easier access to the Genius polygon, located on the right bank of the Isère (currently the alluvial forest located between the N90 Fastway and the Isère loop). Its name comes from the particularly sandy grey-black terrain found in this loop of the river. This is alluvial land that the Isère has been carrying from Savoyard Passes.

The Rue Saint Ferjus which leads to the Pont du Sablon from Grenoble bears the name of one of the bishops who occupied the episcopal seat of Gratianopolis in the 7th century. In 1989, stuntman Georges Burggraf, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, took the arch of the Sablons bridge on a motorcycle to cross the bridge. In 2003, the deck of the bridge, the metal structures and the sail...