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Thollon-les-Mémises is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in southeastern France. It is labeled "Snow Village" and "Green Station".

Geography

Situation

The commune of Thollon-les-Mémises is located in Haut-Chablais, a natural and historical region located in the eastern part of the Haute-Savoie department. It is located at the eastern end of the plateau of Gavot, at the foot of the Montagne des Mémises, dominated by the peak of the Memises.

The altitude is 922 m at the church threshold.

Located southeast of Evian-les-Bains Spa, the town overlooks Lake Geneva.

Boundary municipalities

Climate
The climate is mountain-like.

Channels and transport

Departmental road 24 (from Evian-les-Bains to Thollon),
Evian-les-Bains SNCF station (TER terminal and direct TGV),
The public transport services of Evian-les-Bains (ÉVA'D) serve the municipality,
Geneva Cointrin International Airport, Switzerland,
General Navigation Company (from Lausanne, Switzerland, to Evian),
Taxi to Thollon-station.

Urbanism

Typology
Thollon-les-Mémises is a rural commune, because it is part of the little or very little dense communes, in the sense of the density communal grid of INSEE.
The municipality is also out of town attraction.

Land use
Land use in the municipality, as reflected in the European database of biophysical land use Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of forests and semi-natural habitats (80.2% in 2018), an increase over 1990 (77.3%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows:
forest (59.5%), shrub and/or grass vegetation (20.7%), urbanized areas (9.6%), grassland (7.2%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (3%).

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of land use in the municipality (or territories at different scales). Several periods are available in the form of aerial maps or photographs: the Cassini map (), the Staff Map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to present).

Urban morphology and equipment
Different parts of the municipality are distinguished:
Thollon-les-Mémises (chief town) (), with the church, the communal postal agency, the school, the library, the football, tennis, petanque fields, the town hall, a car garage, and its chalets;
Le Maravent (), residential area with its many chalets;
Thollon-les-Mémises (station) (), also a residential area, with the tourist office, the ESF, the cable car, the stop-garderie, the medical office, a taxi, a motorhome area, bars-restaurants, a guest room, shops (sport stores, real estate agencies, supermarket) and the cinema "Le Roc";
Grand-Roc (), residential tourist area, built on Mount Chalon, with point