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Téléphérique Grenoble-Bastille
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  • By Lilasel on October 11, 2005
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    Since 1934, the Bastille site has been linked to the city by what at the time was Europe's first cable-car in a town centre. The short breathtaking ride in the "Eggs" sweeps visitors up to the viewing platforms, discovery trails around the fortifications, recreation areas, café, restaurant, footpaths and fitness circuits.

    Téléphérique Grenoble-Bastille
    Quai Stéphane Jay - 38 000 Grenoble
    Tel : 04.76.44.33.65. - Fax : 04.76.51.61.49.

    Internet : http://www.bastille-grenoble.com
    e-mail : accueil.telepherique@bastille-grenoble.com

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    Musée de Grenoble, the entrance
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  • By JLBG on April 20, 2005
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    The museum of Grenoble is one of the best in France outside Paris as it has a wide collection of both ancient and modern and contemporary art : Le Pérugin, Véronèse, Strozzi, Canaletto, Guardi, Rubens, Zurbaran... and also many French painters such as de Philippe de Champaigne, George de la Tour, Claude Lorrain, Simon Vouet.

    The XIX° century is represented by Gauguin, Fantin Latour, Corot... The first half of the XX° century is the best part of the museum with "le célèbre intérieur aux aubergines" by Matisse, "l'intérieur blanc" from Bonnard, "Le Remorqueur" by Fernand Lager, "La Fenêtre" by Delaunay, "le songe d'une nuit d'été" by Chagall, "Le paysage à l'enfant" by Klee... There is also the best of surrealism: Magritte, Masson, Miro... et de l'art abstrait : Van Doesburg, Kupka, Arp, Bill, Gorin, Peri... and finally contemporary art, French (Morellet, Toroni, Lavier...) and foreign (Wesselman, Noland, Kellly,Lewitt...).
    Open : every day from 10h to 18h30 (closed Tuesdays). Price : 4 euros
    Closed 1st January, 1st May, 25 december.

    You can view some of the most prominent paintings or visit the web site of the Musée de Grenoble

    5, place de Lavalette - 38 000 Grenoble
    Tél : 04.76.63.44.44.

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    Parc Paul Mistral, sculpture by Guadagnucci
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  • By JLBG on April 20, 2005
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    "Pousse de marbre" (marble sprout) by Gigi Guadagnucci
    Guadagnucci was born in 1915 in Castagnetola, a village close to Carrare. He followed the family tradition and soon worked on marble. In 1936, for political reasons, he seeked shelter in France. He took a active part in the "maquis" of the Alps. In the 50s, he went back to Italy and finally settled in Paris but shares his time between Paris and Carrare. He is the master of marble carving

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    Crossing Maréchal Lyautey- Jean Pain-Bistesi
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  • Updated By JLBG on April 23, 2005
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    From right to left
    A building with apartments and offices built in the 70s in a style often found in Grenoble.
    The "Bibliothèque Municipale", Avenue Maréchal Lyautey was built as the University library and became city library when the former moved to the campus in the middle of the 60s. I had to make extensive research to learn when I was built but finally got it. The architect was Jean Benoit and it was built in 1950.
    The Telephone building built in the early 50s with the last level added in the 70s in a different style.
    The Place Paul Mistral apartment buildings, built in the late 50s-early 60s

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    Les trois tours de l'Île Verte
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  • Updated By JLBG on April 23, 2005
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    L'Île Verte is not an island but a residential part of Grenoble that was outside the city walls. On the grounds left by the fortifications, between l'Île Verte and the old city, three towers were built in the late 60s at the same time as the "Immeuble en S" (S shaped building). There was much opposition to this architecture but it is now often represented as the figure of Grenoble !

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    Musée de Grenoble, the rear & quartier St Laurent
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  • By JLBG on April 20, 2005
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    The museum was created in 1796 and had since its beginning important collections coming from confiscations during the Revolution. However, it is especially well known for its fine modern collections. Beginning in 1920, its conservatory bought many paintings from young artists that were not yet recognized but who are now highly prized.
    The museum moved to a new building, especially designed as a museum, in 1994.

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    Crossing Maréchal Lyautey- Jean Pain-Bistesi
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  • Updated By JLBG on April 23, 2005
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    This crossing has always amazed me as it shows in a single glimpse different styles of building. Unfortunately, because of road works involved by the building of the third tramway line, I could not get all these buildings on a single photo. However, the two pictures were taken from almost the same place.

    On this photo, the "Bibliothèque Municipale" on the left, the "multiplexe Chavant" on the right and in the foreground, the General Post Office.
    The General Post Office was built around 1970.
    The "multiplexe Chavant" (cinemas and parking) built in 2000 with a shining dark glass front.

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    Palais des sports
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  • Updated By JLBG on April 23, 2005
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    In 1967, for the Winter Olympics, Grenoble needed a "Stade de Glace". P. Junillon and R. Demarini were the architects, helped by N Esquillan, a concrete architect. The cover structure is made of four segments of shells, themselves made of two 7 cm thick concrete veils separated by a technical void of 1 meter. The structure covers 12,000 square meters.

    The four segments meet at right angle and built on four "culées" made of a tripod of reinforced concrete held by 24 meters deep piles. The largest span is 95m and the smallest 65 m. The cover structure is independent of the fronts that hold the steps and there is no link between both.

    It is now a "Palais des sports", used for various sport events such as the cycling "Les Six jours de Grenoble" ans art shows.

    Adresse : parc Paul Mistral.

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    Parc Paul Mistral, sculpture by Apostu
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  • Updated By JLBG on April 23, 2005
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    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)

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    Musée de Grenoble : Monsieur Loyal
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  • Updated By JLBG on June 21, 2006
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    This 8 meters high stabile was created in 1967 for the Olympic games by Calder and was installed in a college, Lycée Argouges where it was soon coveed with graffitis and forgotten among weeds. It was later transferred to the esplanade of the museum. Monsieur Loyal is a main figure in a circus, acting as a clown and this stabile reminds the famous Calder circus that he presented in the world for 40 years.

    Alexander Calder (Pennsylvania, 1898-New-York, 1976), whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family of celebrated, though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially "drew" three-dimensional figures in space. He is renowned for the invention of the mobile, whose suspended, abstract elements move and balance in changing harmony. Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheet steel, called stabiles. Today, these stately titans grace public plazas in cities throughout the world.
    More on Calder on the website dedicated to his achievments from which I borrowed some of the informations presented here.

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