Presentation of the commune

La Muraz is located in the “département” of Haute-Savoie, also called “the roof of Europe”. The origin of its name would come from “murs” (walls), implying walls in ruins or remains of construction, rustic walled houses.

La Muraz is locally pronounced LA MURE. Its inhabitants, numbered 712 at the last census in 1999, are called the Muraziens, Mûriens or Murois; to those add the numerous holiday home owners who come during the summer and occupy up to a hundred dwellings, that is to say almost a third of the village houses whose touristic nature is therefore fully established.

Spread over 1432 hectares the village of La Muraz rises in terraces from 606 meters to 1309 meters in height. It is split by the Viaizon stream (from vas, a pre-indo-european word meaning source) which runs into a green wooded valley making two slopes positioned to the east and west.

• the west slope, a hilly relief composed of hay fields, grazing and forests, backs onto the Salève, a massif somewhat lost between the Jura and the Prealps but on the other hand a mythical mountain and a splendid viewpoint onto Mont Blanc and the Geneva area; from its top, crossed by a ridge road, you can really admire the Geneva lake, the Annecy lake and in clear weather the Bourget lake. .

• the east slope with a less rugged relief gives access to a small plateau which supports the agricultural activity of the area, whose milk production coming from ten different farms, remains the main economic activity in the village. This non-pasteurised milk is used to make the “Tomme de Savoie”, a cheese which when it was produced in the local cheese factory, now closed, has won three times the silver medal at the Salon de l’Agriculture in Paris. .

La Muraz is therefore a country village but a village located less than 10 kilometers from the town of Annemasse, the second most important economic centre of attraction of the “département” of Haute-Savoie and a village located on the doorstep of Switzerland and very close to the international city of Geneva, the border being only 12 kilometers away.

La Muraz, with a well thought-out urbanisation policy led by the successive councillors, has kept the charms of the country and can therefore offer an appreciable quality of life in a preserved environment, a priceless wealth nowadays, especially when the city centres are only a few minutes away.