Plateau of the Glières

The plateau des GLIERES is a plateau in the Haute Savoie, forming part of the Aravis, from pre-alpine caracácter. With an average altitude of 1450 emtros, this plateau was for centuries an almost inaccessible place and the small population that lived there is isolated by snow for most of the winter. Due to this reason, it was chosen as an operational base for the French Resistance in 1944. The first major operations against the Germans occurred here. Then, in March of 1944, the Glieres were assaulted by a division of the Wehrmacht alpina, killing most resistant. At present, the function GLIERES share their natural sanctuary with the symbolic space of the French Resistance.