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I am planning a 2 week visit to Grenoble in May. I want to take a 4-5 day train trip from Grenoble to see the Alps, perhaps traveling around Switzerland and down into Italy and then returning to Grenoble. Does that seem like a realistic and/or practical plan. Any tips on planning such a trip would be much appreciated.
Yes, it is. A quick answer: By train:
- Geneva is approxim. 2 hours from Grenoble
- Milano (change at Chambery) is 5-6 hours from Grenoble or Turino (faster)
More under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/
Also by bus:
VFD: http://www.vfd.fr/bienvenue-sur-le-nouveau-site-vfd/horaires/ler-35
Transisere: http://www.transisere.fr/ftp/FR_libre1/Plan%20du%20réseau%20Transisère%202009-2010.pdf
May be you could think about:
- Annecy (a really great city) + around (Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, ...)
- Briançon, Chambery
- And to forecast some days for the mountains (all categories, all profiles).
More to come if needed :) Enjoy your days
Thank you. I will be sure to include a visit to Annecy and perhaps Chamonix as well. I think I will be traveling alone and I don't speak French, and never traveled by rail, so I'm trying to avoid taking on too much.
Je vais vous parler du Lac du Bourget, ou Lac d'Aix les Bains... au nord de Chambéry, dans la Savoie ! (73)
En cette journée du 14 avril 2000 !!! La neige, la neige, et le vin blanc !!
Tous les ingrédients pour un bon plat du coin !
In 1925, Paul Mistral, mayor of Grenoble organized the "Exposition internationale de la houille blanche et du tourisme" (International fair on white coal [hydroelectric power] and tourism) outside the city walls. The Tour Perret is the only building that has been kept. In 1932, the Park took the name of Paul Mistral and was organized as a landscape with small hills, a river, lanes, trees and flowers. Sculptures by Romanian Gregor Apostu, Italian Gigi Guadagnucci, Swiss Joseph Wyss, French Maxime Descombin and Canadian Robert Roussil have been put in the park after the 1967 sculpture symposium.
On this photo, the "dialogue père et fils" by Gregor Apostu (father and son's talk)
The “Atelier d’urbanisme et d’architecture” (AUA) (Urbanism and architecture workshop) was created in the early 60s. Jacques Allegret, an urbanist, created with friends (architects, decorators) a cooperative in order to comply with “the fast evolution of technics and the modification of the art of building, needing intervention of more and more specialists in various fields, geographers, sociologists, urbanists, real estate enquirers, jurists, financial experts, architects, engenieers, plasticians etc.” In 1960, in France, that was quite revolutionary ! The group worked together until 1986.
Outstanding architects (Paul Chemetov, Henri Ciriani, Jean and Maria Deroche, Christian Devillers, Borja Huidobro, Jacques Kalisz, Gérard Loiseau, Jean Perrotet, Jean Tribel...) and landscape-builders ( (Jacques Simon, Michel Corajoud, Alexandre Chemetov...), the best of their generation, belonged to the AUA.
The AUA was collectively responsible for conceiving and building the Villeneuve de Grenoble-Échirolles,
The Villeneuve is made of the long Arlequin gallery, finished in 1973, and of the Baladins buildings. It is organized around a wide park and of the place des Géants, which name comes from the monumental statues of Schultze. The architect Dimounet conceived the school of architecture that opens on this pedestrian only space
The Villeneuve is the most achieved example of integrated urban space, in the same way than new Scandinavian or anglo-saxon cities.
Situé en plein centre de Grenoble, au coeur du quartier historique, le musée de l'ancien Evêché retrace l'histoire des hommes et d'un territoire, l'Isère, depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à nos jours.
Le parcours de visite conduit le public sous le parvis de la Place Notre Dame à la découverte de l'enceinte romaine de la ville et du premier baptistère de Grenoble.
Situated in full center of Grenoble, to the heart of the historic district, the museum of the former Bishopric retraces the history of the men and a territory, the Isère, since the prehistory until our days.
The course of visit drives the public under the square of the Place Notre Dame to the discovery of the Roman surrounding wall of the city and the first baptistery of Grenoble.
This walking suspension-bridge crossing the river "Isere", situated between the Genoble museum and the old court, is actually moving if you jump on it...
You really have to try with 2 people minimum, or just stop the people walking pass to jump with you.
You will feel it move under you feet!! That is just fun thing to try, of course do not plan a day to do that =))
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