Sallanches (French pronunciation: [salɑ̃ʃ]; Arpitan: Salenches) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.

Located close to the Mont Blanc massif, many visitors pass through the town en route to well-known alpine resorts such as Chamonix, Megève and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.

[5][6] The parish or village is mentioned in different Latin forms Salancia Sabaudiorum, Chalanchia, Salanchia in 1178 in the cartulary of the Cluny Abbey.

Sallanches is dominated to the west by part of the Aravis Range, in particular the summit of the Quatre Têtes (2364 m) and La Miaz (2336m).

Until 2009, Sallanches had only a half-exchange, preventing the population from travelling by the motorway to Chamonix, a source of regular congestion in the city.

Sallanches had two convents: the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin founded in 1619 and the Ursulines from 1630; they disappeared in the turmoil of the French Revolution.

This communal code was at the origin of the prosperity of the city and the establishment of noble families who built castles and fortresses.

Throughout this period, the fate of Sallanches was linked to that of the province of Faucigny, since 1355 in possession of the House of Savoy at the origin of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (1718).

It continued its economic development with fairs and markets, varied trades and some factories (filatures, brewery, chocolate).

The traveller and archivist paleographer Francis Wey (1812-1882) commented on these developments in 1860: "The appearance of this recently rebuilt city can be summed up at a distance.

A petition circulated in this part of the country (Chablais, Faucigny, North of Geneva) and brought together more than 13,600 signatures [Foot 4 , of which 127 are for the commune21, The duchy is reunited following a plebiscite held on 22 and 23 April 1860, where 99.8% of Savoyards replied “yes” to the question “Savoie want to be gathered in France?

In addition to the development of processing industries, its commercial function (banks, insurance, food distribution) in the service of neighbouring communes was increasing.

Sustained economic activity in the city after World War II led to a popular appeal and expansion outside of its checkerboard-domain from 1840.

In addition, a road bypass to the city, which is very regularly a victim of large traffic jams at its centre, is being considered.

On 9 March 2008, Georges Morand's list was elected for his first term in the first round, with about 66.5% of the vote, compared to 18.9% for Marie-Pierre Gourichon and 14.5% for René Chesney.

[13] The undulating chevron is reminiscent of the two rivers or torrents passing through the city, the Sallanche and the Frasse, which meet at the site of the building of the town.

Sallanches is made popular by the presence of many high-tech industries and over 300 retail stores making the town a commercial hub.

[14] In 2015 Sallanches hospital announced that, as part of the government's "groupements hospitaliers de territoire" policy, it would develop a specialist accident department to research and develop mountain-related emergency medicine, because of its proximity to, and past experience of, dealing with accidents occurring in the nearby high mountains.