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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. (...)
3Serre 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 (...)
5Serre  
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 (...)
6Le 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 (...)
8Turin 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 (...)
9Montgenèvre  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 1865
Lat/Lng : 44.9317 / 6.7219
Montgenèvre is a commune of the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. (...)
10Risoul  
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 (...)
11Battle 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 (...)
12French 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 (...)
13Les 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 (...)
14Château 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. (...)