This fountain is called Fontaine du Lion. It symolizes the fight between the river Isère (the snake) and the its affluent the Drac (the Lion).
The snake is made out of bronze and the lion is carved in stone.
It think the creator of this foutain was a sculptor named Sappey.
A view from the art museum.
The photo possibilities are almost endless with that beautiful museum. So you'll see some other pictures taken round here for sure in the future.
Another view from the cable-car (click here to check the first one I posted a few days ago).
I took it from the road that leads to the Musée Dauphinois (a museum about the history of our region which is called le Dauphiné).
A view from what we could name the "Italian district" of Grenoble : Quai Perrière and Marius Gontard Bridge.
Picture taken Rue du Pont (Bridge Street), not far from the art museum again. I guess this street is called like that because of its proximity with the Citadel Bridge.
It's a really tiny street. When I took the photo, I was totally alone there. It was very calm and I appreciated this feeling of serenity. I had the impression of being isolated from the city center although I was right in its heart!
As I had the afternoon off today, I wanted to breath some fresh air and have a nice walk with my snowshoes in the mountain. So I decided to head for Villard-de-Lans, a little resort near Grenoble. But when I arrived, there was absolutly no snow at all! So I juste took a little walk in the forest, took a few pictures and came back to Grenoble.
Winter's not what it used to be here!
(No Photoshop used for this picture!)
Less poetic than usual, this shot is an illustration of a very touchy subject in Grenoble : the building of a new stadium.
We don't have a great football team and yet we're going to have a huge and very modern stadium (over 20 000 seats).Some people think it's a good idea, some other think it's just wasted money.
For my part, I don't know whether it's good or bad, but I can tell you that it keeps people chatting endlessly (as were doing the men when I took the picture)!
If you 're interrested on the subject you can click here to have more details (it's in French).
Nothing special to say about this picture except that I took it during the afternoon, under a bright, shining sun. It looks like spring's already here! But mind you, weather is very changeable in Grenoble and it may snow tomorrow (although I seriously doubt it)!
This Doric colonnade, built in 1844, can be seen in the internal courtyard of the natural history museum.
The museum was designed by the architect Paul Benoit Barillon and can be found in the Jardin des Plantes, located right at the main entrance of the city (opposite side of the road from the towhall).
The Citadel Bridge (built in 1864) over the river Isère.
I am lucky enough to live in this particularly pleasant part of the city!
XVII century mansion in the city centre (place Lavalette), opposite our beautiful art museum.
The ground floor of this mansion has now became a restaurant called Caffè Forté.
This is another institution of the town : its famous cable-car that fly you over the banks of the river Isère toward the Bastille, which is a small fortified moutain.
Grenoble cable-car is the oldest french urban cable-car. It was built in 1934, on Paul Mistral's initiative (who was mayor of the city at that time).
We, inhabitants of Grenoble, nickname it informally "les bulles" (the bubbles) or "les oeufs" (the eggs)!
This installation by French artist Daniel Buren has been displayed for 3 weeks in the rose garden of a park in the city centre.
It is entitled La Ronde de nuit.
When it is lit, at night, it looks quite like a luminous merry-go-round. And I must say that when you look at it for a while it's nearly magical!
The building on this picture (even if I find it quite ugly!) is a symbol of Grenoble.
It is located in a district called L'Ile Verte and it is part of a set of 3 identical towers. They were built between 1963 and 1967 and, at that time, they were the highest inhabited towers in Europe (98 meters high).
The mountain in the background is called Belledonne.
And as Stendhal wrote it, in Grenoble you've got a mountain at the end of every street.
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Je ferai de mon mieux pour essayer de vous répondre dans les meilleurs délais !
Un jeu d'exploration de la ville de Grenoble, ma ville, plus qu'un travail photographique réfléchi.
En publiant une photo par jour et en cherchant de nouveaux sujets à chaque instant, ou presque, une chose est sûre : je ne peux pas viser la perfection à chaque fois, et encore moins tenir debout à tous les coups !
Il y a du bien et du moins bien.
Il y a des hauts. Il y a des bas.
On verra bien ce qui se dessine avec le temps !
Chaque photo n'est pas toujours faite pour être jugée séparément. Le blog est un contexte général qu'il faut savoir suivre.
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Retrouvez Grenoble Daily Photo dans la presse locale et même internationale !
N'hésitez pas à cliquer sur les photos pour voir les articles en grand format et pouvoir les lire.
[Edit avril 2013 : j'espère également pouvoir mettre en ligne les différents reportages télé d'ici pas trop longtemps !]
N'hésitez pas à cliquer sur les photos pour voir les articles en grand format et pouvoir les lire.
[Edit avril 2013 : j'espère également pouvoir mettre en ligne les différents reportages télé d'ici pas trop longtemps !]
DAUPHINE LIBERE / Mai 2013
ELLE / Juin 2012
ELLE / Juin 2012
NEON MAGAZIN (Germany) / March 2012
LES NOUVELLES DE GRENOBLE / Octobre 2011
PIGEMAG / Décembre 2008
GRENEWS / Avril 2008
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