Montbrison, capital of Drill, harmoniously crossed by the river, Visézy with the abundantly flowered quays offers the discovery D `an old architecture and gives a first impression of the cities of the south blottie to the foot of the mounts of drill and in contact with the plain and of many ponds, the city was always an economic place of exchange.
Its traditional market of the eight hundred years Saturday of age, its by-pass which distributes the establishments of companies, illustrate its vocation of city well centers. Sub-prefecture, it proposes four hundred trade.

Montbrison is also in the middle of the second French area of breeding of trotter.