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Chamonix

Written by . Posted on March 3, 2010. Filed under Cities & Towns, Places. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.

Chamonix, France, hosted the very first Winter Olympic Games ever. This small town in a valley beside Mont Blanc, and a bunch of other mountains, (and I mean a bunch – the valley is surrounded), was “discovered” by modern tourists in 1741 when a pair … Read More →

Grenoble

Written by . Posted on February 27, 2010. Filed under Cities & Towns, Places. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.

Host of the 1968 Winter Olympic Games, Grenoble, France, is situated at the foot of the alps and the junction of the Drac and Isère rivers. To find the origins of the name Grenoble, we have to cast our gaze back through history. Grenoble is … Read More →

Albertville

Written by . Posted on February 19, 2010. Filed under Cities & Towns, Places. Tagged , , , . No comments.

Continuing on the theme of host cities of the Winter Olympic Games, today we are featuring Albertville, France. Albertville was created in either 1836, (according to Wikipedia), or 1835, (according to Placenames Of The World), when the neighbouring villages of L’Hôpital and Conflans were combined … Read More →