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Commune of Romans-sur-Isère |
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| Location | |
| Coordinates | 45° 02' 47" N 05° 03' 06" E |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Drôme |
| Arrondissement | Valence |
| Canton | Chief town of 2 cantons |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Pays de Romans |
| Mayor | Henri Berthollet (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 122 m–291 m (avg. 167 m) |
| Land area¹ | 33.08 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
(Romanais) 32,667 |
| - Density | 987/km² (1999) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 26281/ 26100 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Romans-sur-Isère or Romans (Occitan: Romans d'Isèra) is a town in South-East of France in the Drôme département.
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Geography
It is located on the Isère River and 18 km North-East from Valence. With the neighbour town Bourg-de-Péage there are more than 50000 inhabitants in the urban area. Romans is not far from the Vercors, it takes only 20 minutes by car.
Economy
- Nuclear fuel factory (FBFC)
- Shoe industry (declining)
Sights
- International Museum of Shoe
- Factory shops (textile) : « Marques Avenue » and shoe shops : « Fan' Halles »
- Tower of Jacquemart clock
- Collegiate church of Saint Barnard
 General view |
 The collegiate church of Saint-Barnard |
Gastronomy
- Pogne of Drôme (brioche with rum and orange blossom)
- Ravioles du Dauphiné (little paste square with cheese-, egg-stuffing, sometimes with flavour like goat's cheese or mushrooms)
- This region procuces apricots, peaches and walnuts
There is a market in the town centre on Fridays and Sundays in the morning, where many regional products are sold, majoritarily fruits during summer.
Transportation
Access to the town is easy with the highway between Valence and Grenoble, which can be taken for free between Valence and Romans, and furthermore with the TGV (high-speed train). There's a TGV station between Valence and Romans, and so it takes, in best of cases, two hours and twelve minutes to go from Paris to the station, and then add approximately ten minutes with a car.
