Isère
Arrondissement of Grenoble
Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux

Bastille

The Bastille is a fortress culminating at 476 m above sea level, located at the south end of the Chartreuse mountain range and overlooking the city of , .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: fortress overlooking Grenoble, France
  • Also known as: “Fort de la Bastille”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Musée des troupes de montagne and Grenoble Graduate School of Business.

Museum
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is a museum.

College
Photo: 朝彦, CC0.
Grenoble Ecole de Management is a French graduate business school or Grande Ecole, founded in 1984 in , in the region by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grenoble. is situated 1¼ km southwest of Bastille.

Museum
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The is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of in the region of France. Located on the left bank of the , place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art and for its collections of modern and contemporary art. is situated 730 metres southeast of Bastille.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Notre-Dame and Grenoble.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is a city of around 158,000 inhabitants in 2017 in the . The climate is quite cold in winter, with days of snow almost every year. Summers are known to be hot, as mountains surrounding the town stop any wind.

Suburb
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The , nowadays known as Presqu'Île is a neighborhood of the city of in . It includes a significant number of research centers in a peninsula between and .

Bastille

Latitude
45.19895° or 45° 11′ 56″ north
Longitude
5.72527° or 5° 43′ 31″ east
Elevation
485 metres (1,591 feet)
Open location code
8FQ75PXG+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2876574205
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3011241
Wiki­data ID
Q545992
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Bastille” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “巴士底城堡 (格勒诺布尔)”
  • Chinese: “巴士底城堡”
  • Chinese: “巴士底堡壘”
  • Chinese: “格勒诺布尔巴士底”
  • Dutch: “Bastille”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الباستيل”
  • French: “Bastille”
  • French: “fort de la Bastille”
  • French: “La Bastille”
  • German: “Bastille Grenoble”
  • German: “Bastille”
  • Italian: “Bastiglia”
  • Japanese: “グルノーブルのバスティーユ”
  • Spanish: “Bastilla”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bastille”. Photo: Milky, Public domain.