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Grenoble I – Joseph Fourier University (sciences, health, technologies) Grenoble II – Pierre Mendès-France University (social sciences) which includes the Institute of political studies; Grenoble III – Stendhal University (humanities) Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG or Grenoble-INP) is a federation of engineering colleges.
Grenoble metropolitan area (French: aire d'attraction de Grenoble) as defined by INSEE in 2020 is the functional urban area of the city of Grenoble, southeastern France. It covers 204 communes, all in the Isère department. [1] It has 714,799 inhabitants (2018) in an area of 2,876 km 2 (1,110 sq mi), which is 39% of the Isère department. [2]
Dauphin of France remained the title of the eldest son of a king of France and the heir apparent to the French crown until 1830. The historical capital is Grenoble and the other main towns are Vienne, Valence, Montélimar, Gap and Romans-sur-Isère. The demonym for its inhabitants is Dauphinois.
The Historic Tramway of Grenoble was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge urban and suburban electric tramway network from the Grenoble region of France. It was created in 1894 and operated by the société grenobloise de tramways électriques, which has today entirely disappeared.
The Grenoble-Bastille cable car (French: Téléphérique de Grenoble Bastille), also affectionately known as Les bulles (English: the bubbles), is a cable car in the French city of Grenoble. It links the city centre with the Bastille , a former fortress overlooking the city.
The Bastille is a fortress culminating at 476 m (1,561ft) above sea level, [1] located at the south end of the Chartreuse mountain range and overlooking the city of Grenoble, France. The Bastille, which also gives its name to the hill, is the main tourist site of the Grenoble area, with 600,000 visitors per year. [2]
The Château de Vizille, which was the seat of the Assembly of Vizille that followed the 1788 Day of the Tiles in Grenoble, now houses the Musée de la Révolution française. In 1852 in response to rapid urban development around the edge of Lyon , the (hitherto Isère) communes of Bron , Vaulx-en-Velin , Vénissieux and Villeurbanne were ...
TVG stands for train à grande vitesse, which is French for "train of great speed"), and is the name of France's high-speed rail service. France is the most visited country in the world, receiving over 79 million foreign tourists annually (including business visitors, but excluding people staying less than 24 hours in France). [4] Economic rank