Grenoble Travel Guide

Grenoble is located in Isere, in the Alps. It counts nearly 157000 inhabitants. Tourism is very active in the area. The main activities are sports, cultural and creative leisures but also it is also possible to slacken in centers of wellbeing or to do mountain activities of like the ski. The principal tourist sites of Grenoble are the old city of Grenoble, the vestiges of Roman enclosure, archeological sites like the Gallo-Roman wall and the baptistry paléochrétien, old palate of the Parliament, old hotel of Lesdiguières, hotel of Ornacieux or the Holy Market Claire. Do not miss certain strange places like the stone ground floor of the heart of city, the ball of gun of the garden of the Dolphins or the terminals of believed of 1859. Grenoble is also famous for its gastronomy, taste the local specialities like the potato gratin, the crozets, the bugnes, the murçon, the ravioles or the petrel. It is also a very festive city where the festivals are numerous like Grenoble Jazz Festival, the Cabaret Struck in July, the Rocktambulle festival.