page_title: Mont Pilat
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mont Pilat / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Aqueduc du Gier. Chaponost, le Plat de l'Air. Conduite sur arches.
context_page_description: Mont Pilat or the Pilat massif is a mountainous area in the east of the Massif Central of France.
context_section_description: Flint and pottery found in the municipality of Saint-Genest-Malifaux show that humans were present in pre-historic times.
  During the Celtic era the Pilat was shared by two Celtic peoples, the Segusiavi and the Allobroges.
  They gave the region the name Pilat, meaning broad mountain (pi: mountain and lat: broad).
  The Celts also left many places of worship, arrangements of stones such as those at Château de Belize above Chuyer,
  the Rock Altar Roisey and La Garde, the sacred precincts of Saint-Sabin and the peak of the Three Teeth,
  and especially the "Menhir du Flat" near Colombier.
  In Roman times the water of the river Gier was supplied to Lyon through the aqueduct of the Gier.
  The water was collected above Saint-Chamond and routed through tunnels, of which there are remains at Chagnon and Saint-Martin-la-Plaine, and aqueducts such as the one at Chaponost. During the Roman era Pilat formed the border between the provinces of Gallia Narbonensis and Gallia Lugdunensis.
  There are remains of Roman roads in places such as Pélussin and Saint-Régis-du-Coin.
  On 1 November 1944 a U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed due to bad weather carrying five crew members, army nurse lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz and fifteen wounded of whom some were German prisoners. There were no survivors. It took several hours for help to arrive. The crash occurred in the hollow of La Botte not far from La Jasserie, where a monument was raised in 2002 commemorating the accident.
caption: Aqueduct of the Gier at Chaponost
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