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This list of mountain huts in the Alps includes huts, shelters and similar simple accommodations. In addition to a large number of Alpine club huts of the Alpine clubs , there are also many in private ownership.
Mark Warner's summer destinations include beach resorts in Greece and Turkey, with facilities including tennis and water-sports centres.Its winter ski programme includes 11 chalet hotels, one chalet and apartments in the French Alps, Austria and Italy.
A 'chalet' in the hills to the east of Orosí, Costa Rica. Many chalets in the European Alps were originally used as seasonal farms for dairy cattle, which would be brought up from the lowland pastures during the summer months. The herders would live in the chalet and make butter and cheese in order to preserve the milk produced. These products ...
The departmental road leads to the departmental chalet, to which hotels and chalets are added without accurate urban planning. Courchevel is the only example in Savoie. Chamrousse and L'Alpe d'Huez, in neighboring Isère, are other French examples. Example of ski resorts in Savoie
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 ^2 Inventaire forestier départemental, III e inventaire 1998 Haute-Savoie ( pronounced [ot savwa] ⓘ ) [ a ] is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France , bordering both Switzerland and Italy .
While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and Italy. At 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), Mont Blanc , on the France–Italy border , is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European mountain .
Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t fwa taʁɑ̃tɛz]) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise is a village in the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie, France. The old village lies on the main road between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Val-d'Isère.
The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company .