Granges is located at the foot of the Côte Chalonnaise, 10 km south-west of Chalon-sur-Saône and equidistant (about 5 km) between Buxy and Givry.
The population of about 530 and Grangeaises Grangeais is divided between a near Saint-Desert town and various villages, the most important are the Curles and Bridges, not far from the main road 977 Chalon-sur-Saône / Buxy .
In the canton of Givry and C.C.S.C.C. (Community of Communes of southern Côte Chalonnaise), the common Granges tranche by the operating mode of the soil. This is hardly indeed if history remembers What were cultivated some acres of vines. Agricultural vocation of its extensive area community now seems undeniable, even if the forest competes marginally land and meadows where grain and cattle reign supreme.
An archaeological site of exception. If we know that prehistoric man knew this territory there 150,000 years as evidenced by the presence of several tools from flint probably the place called "The Pit", a human occupation has proved to the 1000 BC, as evidenced by the discovery of a field of urns dating from the Bronze Age. But above all, a few centuries later, the Gallo-Roman civilization found to develop in these places. As shown by the numerous excavations for 30 years, the Romanization of what is now the town of Granges was early (probably from the 3rd decade ago). In total, the site identified covers an area of nearly 50 ha. Nothing was missing in this city, not even, it seems there a temple or a theater. The invasion of barbarian hordes in the early 5th century was to change everything. Granges but continued to serve as a framework for human occupation. In the 6th century, Queen Brunhild Granges gave to the abbey of Saint-Martin d'Autun, who was soon to install a priory and had to also serve as storage of grain, hence the origin Granges name, from the Latin "graniac". In 1570, the land was alienated Granges in favor of Nicolas Pontoux, lawyer Chalon, whose descendants have owned until 1769, when Marie Delavigne the dowry brought to Bernigaud Louis, Lieutenant General bailiwick.
