Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Isère
Arrondissement of Grenoble

Fontaine

Fontaine is a commune in the department in southeastern . Part of the Grenoble urban unit, it is the third-largest suburb of the city of , and is adjacent to it on the west.
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  • Type: Town with 22,900 residents
  • Description: commune in Isère, France
  • Also known as: “38169” and “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Postal code: 38600
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grenoble Graduate School of Business and Sassenage.

College
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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.

Town hall
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is a commune in the department in southeastern , lying in the north-west of the Grenoble urban area. Its historic centre is on the valley floor at the foot of a large cliff face, with housing also stretching up the lower slopes of the Vercors massif and more recent developments towards Fontaine and the river.

Railway station
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Grenoble is the main railway station located in , , . The station was opened on 3 January 1849 and is located on the Lyon–Marseille railway and Grenoble–Montmélian railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grenoble and Seyssinet-Pariset.

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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.

Town
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is a commune in the department in southeastern . It is part of the Grenoble urban unit.

Town
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is a commune in the department in southeastern . It is part of the Grenoble urban unit. is situated 4 km north of Fontaine.

Fontaine

Latitude
45.195° or 45° 11′ 42″ north
Longitude
5.687° or 5° 41′ 13″ east
Population
22,900
Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)
Open location code
8FQ75MWP+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691717
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6454069
Wiki­data ID
Q838235
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fontaine” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fontaine”
  • Arabic: “فونتين، ازار”
  • Arabic: “فونتين”
  • Aragonese: “Fontaine”
  • Arpitan: “Fontaine”
  • Arpitan: “Fontana”
  • Asturian: “Fontaine”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fonten”
  • Bambara: “Fontaine”
  • Basque: “Fontaine”
  • Bavarian: “Fontaine”
  • Cajun French: “Fontaine”
  • Catalan: “Fontaine”
  • Cebuano: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Cebuano: “Fontaine”
  • Chechen: “Фонтен”
  • Chinese: “Fontaine”
  • Chinese: “丰坦”
  • Chinese: “方丹”
  • Corsican: “Fontaine”
  • Croatian: “Fontaine”
  • Czech: “Fontaine”
  • Danish: “Fontaine”
  • Dutch: “Fontaine (Isere)”
  • Dutch: “Fontaine”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فونتين”
  • Esperanto: “Fontaine”
  • Estonian: “Fontaine”
  • Faroese: “Fontaine”
  • Finnish: “Fontaine”
  • French: “Fontaine”
  • French: “Saveuil”
  • Friulian: “Fontaine”
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  • German: “Fontaine”
  • Hungarian: “Fontaine”
  • Icelandic: “Fontaine”
  • Ido: “Fontaine”
  • Indonesian: “Fontaine”
  • Interlingua: “Fontaine”
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  • Irish: “Fontaine”
  • Italian: “Fontaine”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Fontaine”
  • Japanese: “フォンテーヌ”
  • Kabyle: “Fontaine”
  • Kalaallisut: “Fontaine”
  • Kongo: “Fontaine”
  • Korean: “퐁텐”
  • Kurdish: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Kurdish: “Fontaine”
  • Ladin: “Fontaine”
  • Latin: “Fontaine”
  • Latvian: “Fontaine”
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  • Lombard: “Fontaine”
  • Low German: “Fontaine”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fontaine”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Fontaine”
  • Malagasy: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Malagasy: “Fontaine”
  • Malagasy: “Yannick Boulard”
  • Malay: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Malay: “Fontaine”
  • Mazanderani: “فونتن، ایزر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fontaine”
  • Minangkabau: “Fontaine”
  • Narom: “Fontaine”
  • Neapolitan: “Fontaine”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fontaine”
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  • Norwegian: “Fontaine”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fontaine”
  • Papiamento: “Fontaine”
  • Persian: “فونتن، ایزر”
  • Persian: “فونتن”
  • Picard: “Fontaine”
  • Piemontese: “Fontaine”
  • Polish: “Fontaine”
  • Portuguese: “Fontaine”
  • Prussian: “Fontaine”
  • Romagnol: “Fontaine”
  • Romanian: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Romanian: “Fontaine”
  • Romansh: “Fontaine”
  • Russian: “Фонтен”
  • Sardinian: “Fontaine”
  • Scots: “Fontaine”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fontaine”
  • Serbian: “Fontaine”
  • Serbian: “Фонтен”
  • Sicilian: “Fontaine”
  • Slovak: “Fontaine”
  • Slovenian: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Slovenian: “Fontaine”
  • Spanish: “Fontaine”
  • Swahili: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Swahili: “Fontaine”
  • Swedish: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Swedish: “Fontaine”
  • Swiss German: “Fontaine”
  • Tatar: “Фонтен”
  • Turkish: “Fontaine, Isère”
  • Turkish: “Fontaine”
  • Ukrainian: “Фонтен”
  • Uzbek: “Fontaine”
  • Venetian: “Fontaine”
  • Vietnamese: “Fontaine, Isère”
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  • Walloon: “Fontaine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fontaine, Isère”
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  • Zulu: “Fontaine”
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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Fontaine”. Photo: CORLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0.