- "The
French Alps display all the varieties of mountain
scenery, from the sublimity of bare rock and
eternal snow to the animation of densely settled
valleys. Nowhere more than among these incomparable
mountains does human habitat show such close
adaptation to natural conditions" - Michelin
tourist guide
- An
important communication route is formed by the
Sub-Alpine Furrow, a broad and prosperous valley
in which Grenoble,
the metropolis of the Alps, sits at the confluence
of Isère and Drac. The latter river and its
tributaries rise among the crystallinne rocks
of the Ecrins
mountains
- The
western rampart of the Alps is formed by a succesion
of massifs, Chartreuse,
Vercors
..., the last an extraordinary natural fortress
of giddy limestone cliffs.
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