Visits of sites

Historical centre of Grenoble
The Grenoble Old man deserves at least a half-day of visit at the time of a week end: Vestiges of the Roman, many old private mansions, pilot old workings of the history of Grenoble, house of Stendhal, old residence of the Duke of Lesdiguières, Cable car of Bastille, collegial enclosure Holy Andre of 1228, old palate of the Parliament (14453), historical coffee of the roundtable (since 1739), etc
We will provide you with the hotel, a complete booklet with a diagram of visit of Grenoble (2 hours), which can be supplemented by a audioguide available to the tourist bureau.
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L `tourist bureau also organizes guided visits of Grenoble through various topics (to download the program here), in general Week end: Saturday with 10:00 or 14:00

Extremely of the Bastille and its cable car
In the middle of Grenoble, discover one of the richest panoramas of the Alps. By the bubbles you climb in a few minutes of 212 m to 475 Mr. Very belel seen romantic on Grenoble and the mountains.

Hollow of Large Chartreuse with Voiron at 30 minutes (free)
In 1605 a marshal of Henri IV gave to the Carthusian monks a very secret manuscript, that of the Elixir of Long life, starting point of famous liquors. A film in 3D recalls all the activities developed by the Fathers Carthusian monk during the centuries since their arrival in Chartreuse in 1084: agriculture, forging mill, wood-cutting, pharmacy, development of liquors. Visit recommended at the time of Week rainy end

Park of the castle of Vizille (free)
The gardens of Vizille castle offer hundred hectares of greenery. You will be able to stroll along a splendid water level and many channels, to discover the rosery of the garden to the Frenchwoman who is next to the castle, and to fill with wonder to you in front of the many species at animals which live there with complete freedom. Swans, barnacles, ducks mallards, martins fishing, will hérons ashy play about around the ponds, whereas stags, deer and roe-deers traverse in all quietude the paths of the park. Trouts and carps populate the limpid water of the channels supplied with four sources. Very romantic for a walk of week end

Caves of Choranche (Vercors)
To 300 m under ground, you will follow underground rivers, will traverse rooms with the extraordinary stalactites very fine and being able to reach 3 m length, and to vibrate with the tuning fork of sounds and magic light under the ground. Ideal at the time of a week rainy end.

Tanks of Sassenage
Less impressive than Choranche, the Tanks result from a resurgence of the Berger pit. Throughout one kilometer of advance in the caves, you will be able to admire underground rivers, concressions and effects of erosion. The course is varied, with many staircases, of the narrow or low galleries, a little difficult for the people moving with difficulty, but very appreciated by the children. The sound and light proposed evoke (a little quickly) the romantic fairy Mélusine, very present at Sassenage.

Extremely of the Eynard Saint
Of this old strong frame in 1879, you will revive the military life of this time, and will discover an incredible sight on the Grenoble-native valley with 1300 meters of altitude.

Palate of the Factor Horse
A factor of 1900 built a single palate in its kind, by collecting stones on the ways of its rounds during 20 years. Classify historic building by André Malraux. With not missing! Opened the week end

Visits of Museums, Castles and Undertaken

Museum From the Dauphine (free)
With not missing regional Museum of the man, place of memory and history of the Alps from the Dauphine, the Museum from the Dauphine proposes exposures on the traditional lifestyles in the Alps and the history of the ski. Very well at the time of a week rainy end

Museum of painting of Grenoble
(guided visit each week end (Saturday and Sunday) with 15:00 except 1st Sunday of the month)
The museum of Grenoble is today considered as well for its collections of old arts as for its collections of art of the XXe century, like one of most prestigious of Europe.

Museum of the French revolution (free)
Free provision of an audio guides in four languages + guided visit the 1st week end (Sunday) of each month to 15:00 (3,80 per anybody (free for less than 12 years).

St Laurent Crypt
(free + free guided visit the 1st week end (Sunday) of each month to 16:00)
A single religious archeological site in Europe. One raised the oldest manifestations there of Christianity in Grenoble.

Museum of Large Chartreuse (30 mn)
Renovated in its country of origin, Correrie will insert to you in the universe of silence and loneliness of the Carthusian monk.  While walking on of the Church to the cloister, while crossing a cell of monk, you will discover the life such as she is lived inside the monastery. Ideal for one moment of relaxation the week end.  

Museum of Old Evêché
(free + free guided visit the 1st week end (Sunday) of each month to 15:30)
Located in the middle of the historical centre, it presents the Baptistry the first Chrétiens times and from the collections recalling the history of the Isere of Prehistory to our days

Museum of Resistance
(free + free guided visit the 1st week end (Sunday) of each month to 14:30)
The second world war and its repercussions in Isere.

Visits of companies
This site enables you to visit companies which open their doors (ex to you: EDF--HYDRELEC, enables you to include/understand the mechanisms of the transformation of the force of water into electrical energy), or with Dauphiné Libéré (starting from 21:30), you will discover the stages of the development of a daily newspaper (drafting, room of the telexes, page layout, printing works, packing and packing). Closed the week end

Artisanal Brewery of Dauphine (free)
Opened Tuesday at Saturday of 10:00 to 19:00 the Artisanal Brewery of Dauphine invented and brews an absolutely single beer in the world: The Chuck with nuts, a beer of character, 100% astonishing. Free tasting.

For the children

Natural history museum of Natural history
The Natural history museum of Grenoble appears among the four larger Natural history musea of Province, with nearly 1,5 million specimens. Permanent exposures on nature, minerals and the mountain. Ideal at the time of a week rainy end with the children.  

Museum From the Dauphine (free)
Enthralling museum for the children, with particular animations for them. Ideal at the time of a week rainy end with the children.

For moments of relaxation and adventure (15 to 30 minutes in the car)
Autrans Adventure
Indian Forest chartreuse
the Emerald forest in Chartreuse
Parcours Ventures with Nizier Saint: as from 3 years
the forest of the adventure of the collar of Marcieu
Park of relaxation and leisures
Tiwahé Villard de Lans (for the children of 3 à12 years)
Walibi (45 minutes) to go there we suggest you this tourist route.

the railway garden (She-cat 40 mn)
To go there we suggest you this tourist route One of wide-area networks railway miniature of Europe, with more than 30 convoys evolving/moving between cities, rivers, roads, lakes and mountains in an exceptional landscape park.

prehistoric Cave of Thais
Discover the life of the last large hunters of Prehistory. Specific animations for the children the week end.

Magic of the Automats
(Lans in Vercors with 30 min of Grenoble) Creative of automats for more than 30 years, Alain Bardo has signed with the wire of the time of the single models resulting from the characters of the imaginary collective, but also of his own imagination.

Tourist tours

The Departmental committee of Tourism proposes tourist tours to you to leave to the meeting the wonders Dauphine, in plain as in mountain, in the campaigns as in the cities. Roads romantic and of relaxation

For more romanticism and feelings, you walk on these roads in the old cars with www.authentic-roads .com

Balconies of Belledonne
We propose to you to traverse celebrates it road of the balconies which connects the two thermal spas of Uriage and Allevard.

the Valley of Grésivaudan
Located between Chartreuse and Belledonne, the valley of Grésivaudan is an immense alpine furrow which Isere on nearly 40 kilometers borrows, of Grenoble to the doors of Savoy.
Charmed by his landscapes, Louis XII had called it the most beautiful garden of France.

industrial Inheritance in Grésivaudan
With the circuits of iron and hydro-electric power follow the traces of this past where astonishing characters like engineer Aristide Bergès illustrated themselves, the inventor of the hydroelectricity. The discovery of sites and of stroll pedestrian will allow you to plunge yourselves in the origins of the industrial revolution.

On the traces of St Bruno
Territory of forests, calm and peaceful that one discovers, crossed collars, by sinuous roads in corbelling above the torrents. Guaranteed relaxation.

Oisans with the 6 valleys
It is the country of the high mountain, with the shelter of the solid masses of the Jewel cases and of Large Russet-red, dominated by Meije and the peak Blanc.

the Napoleon road
Marked by the Road Napoleon, Matheysine, Beaumont, Valbonnais compose this country of climatic and cultural transition marked already by a southernmost influence. The National park of the Jewel cases, will make it possible to meet chamois, ibexes and golden eagles.

List the Baroness
For a romantic week end and détent in briançonnais.

More sporting relaxation activities

To download the chart of the care

Swimming pool of summer - French Billiards.

In the village (accessible to foot)
Tennis (ready free of rackets and balls).
Walk and jogging in wood to the Golf of Bresson (1 H of walk).

Relaxation in the vicinity (less than 10 minutes in the car)

Institute of hydrotherapy of Uriage baths 

Golf of Bresson 
Superb Golf of 18 holes, drawn by Robert the Trent Jones Jr, very undulating and offering from the splendid point of view on surrounding Grenoble and its mountains.

Horse Club of the Manor
Karting (to 1.5 km): hiring of karts on track indoor.
(for week rainy end with the children)
Laser range (Grenoble) (for week rainy end with the children)
Patinoire (for week rainy end with the children)
Grenoble tennis
Squash time

A little further (between 15 mn and 30 mn)
The Grenobloise area is a starting place of many stroll, accessible to all, and which will make you discover the wonders of medium mountains. We selected some sites which will help you to make your choice. That is for a romantic balande or of relaxation, you will find there certainly good ideas.
trott Them
Stroll and excursions in Isere and Alentours
Grenoble, a City with the Mountain

Petit train of Walls
In 30 km of a spectacular line perched between Vercors and Oisans, you will discover to 30 km/h an exceptional panorama, including 2 of the 7 wonders of the Dauphine one: the Mount Switches and Pierre Percée. Ideal by week end of good weather, but possible also by bad weather.

Excursion in Quad or hiring of VTT with Laffrey (Tel. 06.21.09.89 .17)

Climbing Canyoning
Speleology in Vercors. To practise or discover sports of nature, the office of the monitors will frame you in full safety.

Vertige Ventures
1st center of Europe of jump in rubber band (bridge of Ponsonnas 103 meters)

First flight in Parapente, ULM, hang glider 
Feelings guaranteed in full safety

Circuit of the Lackey
Animation mechanical sports. Live your dreams: Control a racing racing car on the 2,4 km of fast and technical track of the Lackey.

Via Ferrata of the Bastille in Grenoble 
For the amateurs of easy climbing. Equipment obligatory.

the ride
Riding school open all the year from June to October on Villard de Lans and from October at June on sassenage.

thermal baths of Allevard
Relaxation, to be well, cures at a watering-place.

Coasting flight in Mongolfières (Lumbin or Vercors)
Overflight of the valley of Grésivaudant, or Vercors. Count one morning (preparation, flight of 60 mn, arrangement of the balloon) - minimum 2 sea-green. - sea-green maximum 4 (12 years minium) in a nacelle. Tariff: 200 /pers. Mr. IMBURCHIA - Tél.04.76.08.23.23/06.80.02.24 .33.

Ski station with 30-40 minutes in the car (ideal for a week end of ski)
Ski in Chamrousse
Ski to the Seven Laux
Ski in the Alps d' Huez

Other useful bonds

Sites general practitioners of discovered of Grenoble and its surroundings
official site of Grenoble
Departmental committee of tourism of Isere
Inheritance in isère
Rhône Alpes Tourism
Tourist bureau of Sappey-in-Chartreuse
VTTMania for the amateurs of VTT

Vercors
Regional natural park of Vercors
Villard de Lans, Corrençon in Vercors
Chartreuse
By national of the Jewel cases

Culture and spectacles
www.affiches.fr
height: Spectacle and Concerts
Sport hall of Grenoble

Economy
CCI
Chamber of commerce and of industry of Grenoble

AEP I
The Agency of Studies and Promotion of Isere is the economic development agency of Grenoble-Isere. It is financed by the General advice of Isere for his missions of studies, promotion, prospection and establishment of companies.

Liquid air
Air star
Alstom
Becton Dickinson
Bull
Cap Gemini
Caterpillar
ECA
Digigram
Eolas
FNAIM
France Telecom
Gas electricity of Grenoble
Glénat
Bold
Hewlett-Packard
MGE UPS Systems
University Presses of Grenoble
RANK XEROX
Schneider Electric
STMicroelectronics
Sun microsystems
Teisseire
Weltico

Other directories
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Other hotel partners
Hotel Elysium Montparnasse - Paris

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