Isère
Isère is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. Isère is the third-largest ski and winter destination in France, after Savoie and Haute-Savoie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Grenoble and Vienne.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city of around 158,000 inhabitants in 2017 in the French Alps. 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.
Vienne
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Vienne is a small city in the department of Isère in the region Rhône-Alpes. Vienne is 20 miles south of Lyon, on the Rhône River.
Voiron
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Voiron is in a city in Isère, France. The city is at the foot of the Chartreuse, a mountain chain in Alps, so that is convenient for winter sports.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Alpe d’Huez and Les Deux Alpes.
Alpe d’Huez
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Alpe d'Huez is a winter ski resort city in the French Alps. It is a popular resort for cycling fans as in many years one of the most important stages of the Tour de France ends at the ski station.
Les Deux Alpes
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Les 2 Alpes is a ski resort in the French department of Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The village sits at 1,650 m and lifts run to 3,600 m. It has the largest skiable glacier in Europe and is France's second oldest ski resort behind Chamonix.
Isère
- Type: department of France with 1,260,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Département de l’Isère” and “Isere”
- Neighbors: Ardèche and Drôme, Greater Lyon, Hautes-Alpes, and Savoie
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Isère” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Isère”
- Albanian: “Isère”
- Arabic: “إزار”
- Aragonese: “Isèra”
- Armenian: “Իզեր”
- Arpitan: “Isera”
- Asturian: “Isère”
- Azerbaijani: “İzer (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “İzer”
- Balinese: “Isère”
- Basque: “Isère”
- Bavarian: “Département Isère”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Ізер”
- Belarusian: “Ізер (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Ізер”
- Belarusian: “Ізэр”
- Bengali: “ইসে”
- Breton: “Isèra”
- Breton: “Isère”
- Bulgarian: “Изер”
- Catalan: “Isèra”
- Cebuano: “Isère”
- Chechen: “ИзегӀ (департамент)”
- Chechen: “ИзегӀ”
- Chinese: “Isère”
- Chinese: “伊泽尔省”
- Chinese: “伊澤爾”
- Chinese: “伊澤爾省”
- Chuvash: “Изер”
- Croatian: “Isère (departman)”
- Croatian: “Isère”
- Czech: “Isère”
- Danish: “Isère”
- Dimli (individual language): “Isère”
- Dutch: “Isere (departement)”
- Dutch: “Isère”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايزير”
- Esperanto: “Isère”
- Estonian: “Isère’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Isère”
- French: “Isere”
- French: “Isère”
- Galician: “Isère”
- Georgian: “იზერი”
- German: “Département Isère”
- German: “Isère”
- Greek: “Ιζέρ”
- Gujarati: “ઇસેર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Isère-sén”
- Hebrew: “איזר”
- Hindi: “इसेरे”
- Hungarian: “Isère”
- Indonesian: “Isère”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Isere”
- Interlingue: “Département Isère”
- Irish: “Isère”
- Italian: “Isère”
- Japanese: “イゼール県”
- Kannada: “ಇಶೆರ್”
- Kazakh: “Изер”
- Kongo: “Isère”
- Korean: “이제르주”
- Ladin: “Isère”
- Ladino: “Isère”
- Latin: “Isara”
- Latvian: “Izēra”
- Limburgan: “Isère”
- Lithuanian: “Izeras”
- Lombard: “Isère”
- Low German: “Isère”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Isère”
- Macedonian: “Изер”
- Malagasy: “Isère”
- Malay: “Isère”
- Marathi: “इझेर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Isère”
- Northern Frisian: “Isère (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Isère”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Isère”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isère”
- Norwegian: “Isère”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isèra”
- Ossetian: “Изер (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Изер”
- Pampanga: “Isère”
- Persian: “ایزر”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Isère”
- Polish: “Isère”
- Portuguese: “Isère”
- Romanian: “departamentul Isère”
- Romanian: “Isère”
- Russian: “Изер (департамент)”
- Russian: “Изер”
- Scots: “Isère”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Isère”
- Serbian: “Изер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Isère”
- Sinhala: “ඉසේරේ”
- Slovak: “Isère”
- Slovenian: “Isère”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایزر”
- Spanish: “Isere”
- Spanish: “Isère”
- Swahili: “Isère”
- Swedish: “Isère”
- Swiss German: “Département Isère”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Изер”
- Tamil: “இசேரே”
- Telugu: “ఇసియర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอีแซร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Isère”
- Turkish: “Isère”
- Ukrainian: “Ізер”
- Urdu: “ایزار”
- Uzbek: “Isère”
- Venetian: “Isère”
- Vietnamese: “Isère”
- Vlaams: “Isère”
- Volapük: “Isère”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isère”
- Welsh: “Isère”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع آئیزیر”
- Wu Chinese: “伊泽尔省”
- Yue Chinese: “伊澤爾”
- “Isere”
- “Isère”
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