The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy won three gold medals in all the alpine skiing events.
Arrival of Jean-Claude Killy.
Site of Chamrousse (1968).
Finnish Olympic team on the opening day
Olympic Village in 2014.
Grenoble is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical province and lies where the river Drac flows into the Isère at the foot of the French Alps.
Remnants of the Roman walls
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières
Grenoble plan-relief (1848)
Day of the Tiles, 1890 painting by Alexandre Debelle, (Musée de la Révolution française)