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Lac de Tignes is a lake at Tignes in the Savoie department of France This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 11:52 (UTC). Text is available ...
Tignes comprises 5 Villages; Tignes Val Claret, Tignes le Lac, Le Lavachet, Tignes Les Boisses and Tignes-les-Brévières. The first three are close together at 2100 m with Les Boisses and Les Brevieres further down the valley, above and below the dam respectively. All the towns located above the dam are linked by a free continuous shuttle bus.
Lac du Santel at Tignes; Lac de la Sassière at Tignes; Lac de Savine in the massif du Mont-Cenis; Lac de Tignes (H) at Tignes; Lac de Toeda in the massif de la Vanoise; Lac Tournant in the massif des Grandes Rousses; Lac du Vallon under the Aiguille de Scolette; Lacs Verdet in the Vallée du Clou
Tignes-les-Brevières (French pronunciation: [tiɲ le bʁevjɛʁ]; 1550m) is a small skiing village in the French Alps that is the lowest point of the ski resort of Tignes. [ 1 ] Owing to its geographical location the village receives as much snowfall as its neighbours and during the 2005/6 season, Les Brevieres had over 4 metres of snow.
Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes Ski resort, [1] sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes. [2] Like many resorts built at this time, Tignes Val Claret was constructed primarily as a ski resort.
The Tignes Dam, also known as the Chevril Dam, is an arch dam on the Isère in the municipality of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. In planning since the 1920s and under the protest of locals, the dam was constructed between 1948 and 1952 with the purpose of hydroelectric power. At the time of its completion, it was ...
Villaroger is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It is situated in the upper Tarentaise Valley, between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Tignes.
The Mont-Cenis Lake is a lake located in the Mont-Cenis massif at an altitude of 1,974 meters in the municipality of Val-Cenis in France. It is situated at the top of the Cenise valley, on the Italian side of the Mont-Cenis pass, the most frequented passage on the Lyon-Turin-Milan axis during the Middle Ages between Western Europe and the Italian peninsula.