Skip to content
Vienne

File:Vienne_-_Quai_du_Rhône,_église_Saint-André-le-Bas_et_chapelle_Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette,_depuis_Saint-Romain-en-Gal.jpeg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ26849· pop 79· linked from 1,066 articles

Also known as Vienne-la-Patriote, Vienne, Isère

commune in Isère, France

OverviewAI-generated

Vienne is a commune in France, situated within the Isère department and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It serves as the capital of the arrondissement of Vienne and the cantons of Vienne-Nord and Vienne-Sud. The town is located near the Rhône and Gère rivers and shares borders with Chuzelles, Sainte-Colombe, Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône, and Saint-Romain-en-Gal. Its official name is Vienne, also referred to as Vienne-la-Patriote.

The area of Vienne is 22.65 square kilometers. Population figures vary by source, with one listing 31,778 residents and another citing 32,293. The male population is recorded as 13,978. Elevation data differs between sources, with one indicating 404 meters above sea level and another stating 175 meters. The town has a postal code of 38200 and is twinned with Esslingen am Neckar, Albacete, Goris, and Neath Port Talbot.

Synthesized by Vinony from 47 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Open Meteo, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Weather now

cached 3h ago
19°broken clouds
70% 1.5 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
Vienne
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Population
32,293
Timezone
Europe/Paris

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

50US AQIGood
PM2.5
12.9 µg/m³
PM10
16.2 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 02:00 · Open-Meteo

~15 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Vienne ( French: [vjɛn] ; Arpitan: Vièna) is a town in southeastern France, located 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Lyon, at the confluence of the Gère and the Rhône. It is the fourth-largest commune in the Isère department, of which it is a subprefecture alongside La Tour-du-Pin. Vienne was a major centre of the Roman Empire under the Latin name Vienna.

Vienne was the capital of the Allobroges, a Gallic people, before its conquest by the Romans. Transformed into a Roman colony in 47 BC under Julius Caesar, it became a major urban centre, ideally located along the Rhône, then a major axis of communication. Emperor Augustus banished Herod the Great's son, the ethnarch Herod Archelaus to Vienne in 6 AD.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vienne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (12)

On the map