Fontaine, Isère Département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
🇫🇷 Fontaine is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, and is adjacent to it on the west.
Parc naturel régional du Vercors The Vercors Regional Natural Park (Parc naturel régional du Vercors) is a protected area of forested mountains in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.
Set upon a limestone plateau south of Grenoble, the park extends into the French Western Alps. It spans two departments, Drôme and Isère, and covers a total area of 135,000 hectares (330,000 acres). The plateau's main elevation reaches 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) while the eastern Alpine mountain ridge tops 2,300 metres (7,500 ft) with Le Grand Veymont (2341m).
The Vercors area is peppered with caves. During World War II, it served as a safe and defensible position for the French Resistance: Forteresse de la Résistance. The area now contains around three hundred monuments to the Resistance, including a memorial centre and the preserved remains of a destroyed village.
In modern times, Vercors has become a popular tourist destination frequented for skiing, hiking and spelunking. Several small communes dot the landscape, supported principally by forestry, shepherding and tourism. The area was officially designated a regional natural park in 1970.
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Fontaine has a population of over 22,910 people. Fontaine also forms part of the wider Grenoble Arrondissement which has a population of over 687,985 people. It is also a part of the larger Grenoble-Alpes Métropole. Fontaine is situated 4 km west of the centre of Grenoble.
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Fontaine has links with:
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🇳🇱 Maastricht 5.699
Locations Near: Fontaine 5.6856,45.1939
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🇫🇷 La Tour-du-Pin 5.445,45.564 d: 45.2
🇫🇷 Le Bourget-du-Lac 5.86,45.648 d: 52.3
🇫🇷 Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne 6.333,45.278 d: 51.6
Antipodal to: Fontaine -174.314,-45.194
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