Grenoble
Grenoble (population 160,000) is a city in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère. It is the préfecture (capital) of the Isère département.
Grenoble is a major scientific center, especially in the fields of physics, computer science and applied mathematics. The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and several laboratories of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) and the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique are located in Grenoble.
Grenoble is surrounded by mountains: to the north the Chartreuse, to the west the Vercors, and to the east the Belledonne range.
Grenoble is famous for its walnuts, for which it enjoys an appelation of controlled origin.
In 1968, Grenoble hosted the Winter Olympic Games. See 1968 Winter Olympics
Referenced By
1968 Winter Olympic Games | 1968 Winter Olympics | 1968 in sports | 1989 in sports | 2001 Tour de France | 6 February | 6th February | AbbeY | Agrippa von Nettesheim | Ahmad Shah Masood | Ahmad Shah Masoud | Ahmad Shah Massoud | Ahmed Shah Masood | Ahmed Shah Massoud | Andre the Giant | André René Roussimoff | André Roussimoff | André the Giant | Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave | Barnave | Berlioz | Carole Montillet | Casimir Pierre Périer | Champollion | Chartreuse Mountains | Chartreuse liqueur | Chartreuse liquor | Claudine Alexandrine Guerin De Tencin | Claudine Guerin de Tencin | Claudine Guérin de Tencin | Clotaire I | Clotaire I of the Franks | Convent | Cornelius Agrippa | Dauphine Alps | Departement | Departments of France | Département | Départements | Départment | Electron spin resonance spectroscopy | Etienne Bonnot de Condillac | FRia | February 6 | February 6th | FrancE | France/Geography | France/Transportation | Franz Krienbuhl | Franz Krienbühl | French Departments | French Republic | French arrondissements | French department | French départements | Frenchman | Gambetta | Geography of France | Gerard Debreu | Giovanni Angelo Braschi | Giovanni Braschi | Grande Chartreuse | Hector Berlioz | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | Henri Fantin-Latour | INRIA | ISO 3166-1:FR | Ice Hockey World Championship | Institut Laue-Langevin | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique | International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship | International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships | Internet Exchange Point | Isère | Jacques Cujas | Jacques Vaucanson | Jacques de Vaucanson | Jean-Baptiste Jourdan | Jean-Claude Killy | Jean-Francois Champollion | Jean-François Champollion | Jean Baptist Jourdan | Jean Baptiste Jourdan | Jean Bertaut | Jean Claude Killy | Jean Joseph Mounier | Joseph Michel Antoine Servan | Josias Simler | Josias Simmler | Jules Lemaitre | Jules Lemaître | La Salette | Leon Gambetta | Light rail listing | List of French Airports | List of French cities | List of capitals of subnational entities | List of cities in France | List of cities with trolleybuses | List of departments of France ...
|
