Artas (Occitan: Artàs) is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

The D126 road comes from Roche in the north through the heart of the commune and crossing the D53 in the village before continuing to Saint-Jean-de-Bournay in the south.

[3] [3] In the reign of Louis XIV the Oak trees from the Artas Forest provided a large part of the wood needed to build the King's Galleys at Marseille.

Artas was the birthplace of Mother's Day in France on 10 June 1906 - two years earlier than the date of origin of 1908 claimed by the USA.

[4] List of Successive Mayors[5] The inhabitants of the commune are known as Artasiens or Artasiennes in French.