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   Museum of Grenoble

   A municipal fine arts museum whose modern holdings — Matisse, Picasso, Léger, Soutine — are among the strongest in France outside Paris, in a 1994 building on the Isère. It was the first French museum to buy Cubist work, in 1921.

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   Museum of the French Revolution

   The only museum in the world devoted to the French Revolution, in the Château de Vizille fifteen kilometres south of Grenoble, where the Assembly of Vizille of 1788 met — often called the opening act of the Revolution. It holds Jean-Baptiste Wicar's first personification of the Republic.

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   Grenoble Cathedral

   The cathedral of Grenoble, whose fabric runs from the eleventh century onwards and which holds a fifteenth-century stone sacrament tower fourteen metres high. A fourth-century baptistery was found beneath the square in front of it and is shown in the museum next door.

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   Bastille

   A fortress at 476 metres at the south end of the Chartreuse range, built up in the nineteenth century by General Haxo on much older works. The bubble cable car of 1934 — the first urban cable car in the world — climbs to it in five minutes.

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   Museum of the Old Archbishopric

   A museum in the former bishop's palace covering the heritage of the Isère, whose basement holds the excavated fourth-century baptistery of Roman Cularo — the earliest Christian building found in the city, kept under glass.

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   Uriage-les-Bains

   A spa village in a wooded valley east of Grenoble, at four hundred and fourteen metres. Its sulphurous springs have been taken since the nineteenth century and the treatment centre still works, mainly for skin conditions.

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   Champollion Museum

   A museum in the Champollion family house at Vif, south of Grenoble, where Jean-Jacques Champollion-Figeac lived and his younger brother Jean-François — who deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822 — spent long periods. It opened in 2021 after a long restoration.

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   Château d'Uriage

   A castle at Saint-Martin-d'Uriage first raised in the eleventh century and rebuilt in the nineteenth, looking down on the spa village below. Its terraced grounds are open in summer for concerts.

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   Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Grenoble

   A museum of the Resistance and deportation in the Isère, opened in 1994, in the city that Charles de Gaulle awarded the Compagnon de la Libération for its role as the centre of Alpine resistance. Testimony, clandestine presses and the Vercors maquis are the core of it.

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    Perret tower (Grenoble)

    A concrete observation tower of 1925 by Auguste Perret in the Paul Mistral park, built for the international hydroelectric exhibition and originally called the tower for looking at the mountains. At eighty-seven metres it was the first reinforced concrete tower of its height in France.

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   Cularo

   The Gallic settlement on the site of Grenoble, mentioned by Cicero in 43 BC, which was renamed Gratianopolis in 381 for the emperor Gratian — from which Grenoble derives. Fragments of its late Roman wall survive in the old town.

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   Musée dauphinois

   A museum of the Dauphiné — the Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes — in the seventeenth-century convent of Sainte-Marie-d'en-Haut on the hillside. Its permanent exhibitions cover mountain farming life and the invention of Alpine skiing; the baroque chapel is worth the climb alone.

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   Grenoble Archaeological Museum

   An archaeological museum on the Saint-Laurent site at the foot of the Bastille, built over a burial church whose successive phases run from the fourth century onwards. A glass floor lets visitors walk above the excavation, and the twelfth-century crypt of Saint-Oyand is intact.

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   Île Verte

   A neighbourhood in a former loop of the Isère, cut off when the river was straightened in the nineteenth century so that the island became dry land. It is relatively self-contained, with the hospital and a large cemetery in it.

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   Monastère de Chalais

   A Dominican convent near Voreppe in the hills northwest of Grenoble, founded in 1101, whose Romanesque church survives. Dominican nuns still live there and the guest house takes retreatants.

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   Collegiate Church of Saint-André, Grenoble

   A thirteenth-century collegiate church in the old town, built as the palace chapel of the Dauphins of Viennois. The tomb of the Chevalier Bayard, the knight without fear or reproach who died in 1524, is inside.

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   Paul Mistral park

   A 27-hectare park east of the centre laid out for the 1925 hydroelectric exhibition, holding the Perret tower, the city hall of 1967 and the 1968 Olympic ice stadium. The Winter Games opening ceremony was held in it.

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   Couvent des Minimes de Grenoble

   A monastery built about 1644 on the Rue du Vieux Temple by the Minim friars, a semi-contemplative mendicant order. It was suppressed in the Revolution and the buildings served afterwards as barracks and a school.

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   Le Magasin des horizons

   A national contemporary art centre founded in 1986 in a steel and glass hall built by Gustave Eiffel's workshops for the 1900 Paris exhibition and re-erected in Grenoble. Its 1,000-square-metre nave, called the Rue, takes installations nothing else in France can hold.

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    Natural History Museum of Grenoble

    A municipal natural history museum founded in 1851, strong on Alpine minerals — the Dauphiné produced some of Europe's finest quartz and axinite crystals — along with regional fauna and an aquarium. Its nineteenth-century display cases have been kept.

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