ISÈRE INFORMATION
ISERE Geography
Isère is part of the current region of Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the departments of Rhône, Ain, Savoie, Hautes-Alpes, Drôme, Ardèche, and Loire.
Isère includes a part of the French Alps. The highest point in the department is the summit of La Meije at 3,988 meters. The Vercors Plateau dominates the west of the department.
Isère (Arpitan: Isera, Occitan: Isèra) is a department, in the Rhône-Alpes (Rôno-Arpes in Arpitan) region in the east of France named after the river Isère.
Vercors Plateau: The Vercors is a plateau in the départements of Isère and Drôme in Eastern France. It is one of the ranges that form the French Prealps. It lies west from the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac and Isère. The cliffs at its eastern edge face the city of Grenoble. It comprises several resorts for cross-country skiing and for down-hill skiing as well. Villard-de-Lans is the biggest down-hill ski resort of the Vercors. It is also home to the cave, Gouffre Berger.
The highest summits of the Vercors are:
Grand Veymont (2346 m)
Grande Moucherolle (2284 m)
Mont Aiguille (2086 m)
Moucherotte (1901 m)
The location remained famous for the World War II Maquis du Vercors when French Resistance against the German occupation established the Free Republic of Vercors from June to July 1944.
Isère River:
The Isère is a 286 km long river in southeastern France, in the Rhône-Alpes région. Its source is in the Alps on the border with Italy, near the ski resort Val d'Isère. It flows into the Rhône River (left bank) in Pont-de-l'Isère, a few km north of Valence. Its upper valley is called Tarentaise
ISERE History
Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Dauphiné. Its area has been reduced twice, in 1852 and again in 1967.
Isère was also the name of the French ship which delivered the 214 boxes holding the Statue of Liberty.
ISERE Culture
The Grande Chartreuse is the mother abbey of the Carthusian order. It is located 14 miles north of Grenoble.
As early as the 13th century, residents of the north and central parts of Isère spoke a dialect of the Franco-Provençal language called Dauphinois. It continued to be spoken in rural areas of Isère into the 20th century.
ISERE Demographics
Inhabitants of the department are called Isérois.
ISERE Tourism
Isère features many ski resorts, including the Alpe d'Huez, Les Deux Alpes, the 1968 Winter Olympics resorts of Chamrousse, Villard de Lans, Autrans. Other popular resorts include Les 7 Laux, Le Collet d'Allevard, Méaudre, Saint Pierre de Chartreuse, Alpe du Grand Serre, Gresse en Vercors.
It comes as the third largest ski & winter destination of France after Savoie (Tignes, the 3 Valleys...) and Haute-Savoie (Chamonix, Morzine...) and before Hautes-Alpes (Serre-Chevalier, Montgenèvre, etc.) It also hosts Coupe Icare, an annual festival of free flight, such as paragliding and hang-gliding, held at the world-renowned paragliding site at Lumbin.
ISERE Administration
Department number : 38
Region : Rhône-Alpes
Prefecture : Grenoble
Subprefectures : La Tour-du-Pin, Vienne
Arrondissements : 3
Cantons : 58
Communes : 533
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