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| 1 | Briançon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1222 Lat/Lng : 44.8964 / 6.6356 | Briançon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. At an altitude of it is the highest city in France, based on the French definition as a community containing more than 2,000 inhabitants (...) | |
| 2 | Sestriere ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2202 Lat/Lng : 44.95 / 6.8833 | Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is situated in Val Susa, from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin. (...) | |
| 3 | Serre Chevalier ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1475 Lat/Lng : 44.94 / 6.56 | Serre Chevalier is a major ski resort in southeastern France, in the Hautes-Alpes department of the Alps. Near the Parc National des Ecrins, it enjoys a large skiing area, with of slopes and favorable weather, boasting 300 days of sunshine a year (...) | |
| 4 | Gap, Hautes-Alpes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 741 Lat/Lng : 44.5594 / 6.0786 | Gap is a commune in southeastern France, the capital and largest town of the Hautes-Alpes department. At a height of 750 m above sea level, it is France's highest prefecture (departmental capital). Together with other Alpine towns, Gap engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the (...) | |
| 5 | Serre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 268 Lat/Lng : 47.205 / 5.6169 | Serre may refer to: * Serre (surname) * Serre (grape), a red Italian wine grape * Serre (river), a tributary of the Oise in France * Serre, Campania, a town and comune in Salerno, Campania, Italy * Serre Chevalier, a French ski resort in the Alps * Serre Calabresi, a mountain and hill area of (...) | |
| 6 | Le Monêtier-les-Bains ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1490 Lat/Lng : 44.9769 / 6.5094 | Le Monêtier-les-Bains is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. (...) | |
| 7 | Alpe d'Huez ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1830 Lat/Lng : 45.0936 / 6.0714 | LAlpe d'Huez is a ski resort at . It is a mountain pasture in the Central French Western Alps, in the commune of Huez, which is part of the department of Isère in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is part of the massif, over the Oisans, and is from Grenoble (...) | |
| 8 | Turin Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 45.1973 / 7.6501 | Turin Airport , also known as Turin-Caselle Airport (Aeroporto di Torino-Caselle), is an airport located at Caselle Torinese, north-northwest of the city of Turin, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region, northern Italy (...) | |
| 9 | Montgenèvre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1865 Lat/Lng : 44.9317 / 6.7219 | Montgenèvre is a commune of the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. (...) | |
| 10 | Risoul ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1121 Lat/Lng : 44.6497 / 6.6408 | Risoul is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is located in the French Alps between the towns of Briançon and Gap. Risoul has a ski resort. It partners with neighbour Vars to form the Forêt Blanche ski domain, located between the Queyras and Écrins national parks (...) | |
| 11 | Battle of the Frontiers ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 543 Lat/Lng : 46.0 / 2.0 | The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. The battles resolved the military strategies of the French Chief of Staff General Joseph Joffre with Plan XVII and an offensive (...) | |
| 12 | French Alps ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 4737 Lat/Lng : 45.8336 / 6.865 | The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and (...) | |
| 13 | Les Deux Alpes ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1654 Lat/Lng : 45.0115 / 6.1254 | Les Deux Alpes (also Les 2 Alpes or Les 2 Alpes 3600) is a ski resort in the French Isère département. The village sits at and lifts run to . It has the largest skiable glacier in Europe and is France's second oldest ski resort behind Chamonix, where the largest mountain in western Europe is (...) | |
| 14 | Château de Beauvais (Lussas-et-Nontronneau) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 198 Lat/Lng : 45.5117 / 0.5897 | The Castle of Beauvais (French:Château de Beauvais) is a French château located in the municipality of Lussas-et-Nontronneau, department of Dordogne, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The castle was listed as a historic monument on 19 December 1973. (...) | |