Grenoble, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Beautifully situated on the Drac and Isère rivers, and surrounded by mountains, GRENOBLE , the self-styled "capital of the Alps", is a lively, modern city, home to four universities, with more than 50,000 students. In the Middle Ages, the Princes of Dauphiné held court here, until the province was annexed by France in the fourteenth century, and the city is also famous for the Journée des Tuiles , a local uprising in 1788 which is held to be the first act of the French Revolution. Grenoble's prosperity was originally founded on glove-making, but in the nineteenth century its … more »