Grenoble
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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
Remnants of the 3rd century AD 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)
Alps
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The Alps are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km across several Alpine countries: Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Ger
Grenoble
…credited as the most extensive example of early 18th-century fortifications in all of France. It then held an important strategic point on the French Alpine frontier with the Kingdom of Sardinia. The first cable transport system, installed on the Bastille in 1875, was built by the Porte de France Cement…
The Mont Blanc massif, the highest range of the Alps
An "Alp" refers to a high elevation pasture frequented only in summer. It often includes several huts and small places of worship (here the Alpe Bardughè in Ticino).
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north.
A typical alpine village in the Tuxertal valley of Tyrol, Austria