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  Vercors - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
VERCORS [Vercors], 1902-91, French writer and illustrator, whose original name was Jean Bruller.
Vercors served in the French resistance movement and helped to found Les Éditions de Minuit, which began as an underground publishing firm.
Vercors: this outlying ripple of the Alps is ideally suited to anyone looking for several days of solitude.(Brief Article)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vercors.html   (256 words)

  
 Isere-Tourisme.com - Vercors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Vercors is a striking example of how geology affects the landscape, with deep caves and gorges cutting into vast wooded plateaux and lush green valleys.
A gateway to the Vercors, between the Gorge of the Bourne, the Rencurel Valley and the Isère Valley.
Lans-en-Vercors lies within the Vercors Regional Park and is a traditional, authentic village offering visitors a friendly welcome for a breath of fresh air, in peaceful surroundings of outstanding beauty.
www.isere-tourisme.com /pages/index/id/1431   (412 words)

  
 France: Anti-German Resistance(1940-1944)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Vercors remained an extremely isolated area until the building of the 'vertigo roads' (routes du vertige), which were necessary for the exploitation of the forests of Vercors.
On 3 July, the Republic of Vercors was proclaimed and the French flag was hoisted.
Vercors was awarded the title of 'Citadel of the Resistance' (Citadelle de la Résistance).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr^resm.html   (903 words)

  
 Vercors travel guide - Wikitravel
Vercors is a massif of mountains and plateaus east of the Rhône Valley, between the valleys of the rivers Drôme and Isère, in the Rhône alpes region of France.
Vercors massif (dark greens and blue on the map) is a group of limestone plateaus surrounded by 300m (1000 ft) vertical cliffs of limestone.
Vercors is populated by both hills animals like stag (cerf), roe deer (chevreuil), common hare (lièvre), and wild boar(sanglier); and mountains animals like mouflon (same spelling in French), chamois (same spelling), marmots (marmotte) and variable hare(lièvre variable).
wikitravel.org /en/Vercors   (5504 words)

  
 Grenoble Cycling Pages - The Vercors
The Vercors is a superb place for cycling for many reasons.
The limestone plateau of the Vercors lies to the south west of Grenoble.
The Vercors was a stronghold for the Resistance during the second world war, and memorials can be seen alongside many of the roads.
www.grenoblecycling.com /the-Vercors.htm   (217 words)

  
 Cycling in the Alps: The Vercors Nature Park
The Vercors Nature Park offers spectacular roads that are highly regarded by cyclists, with routes that are incomparable and unique in Europe.
The scenery is spectacular--as it will be for the next few days--and the local gastronomy should not be overlooked: you are now in the region known for its "ravioles," delightful small squares of wheat dough stuffed with cheese, eggs, parsley, butter and salt.
You are now in the heart of the Vercors, a sparsely populated area.
www.cyclomundo.com /p_vercors_8_days.htm   (678 words)

  
 Vercors, France
The Vercors, in the Dauphiné, is a range of forest-covered hills between the Rhône valley and the Route d'Hiver des Alpes rising to 2,346m/7,697ft in the Grand Veymont and broken up by deeply indented valleys and gorges.
Between 1942 and 1944 the Vercors was a stronghold of the French Resistance, and during the fighting the villages of St-Nizier, Vassieux and La Chapelle were destroyed.
There are numerous paths and trails allowing visitors to explore the Vercors either on foot or on horseback.
www.planetware.com /france/vercors-f-rh-ve.htm   (162 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Vercors (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Vercors (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Vercors served in the French resistance movement and helped to found Les Editions de Minuit, which began as an underground publishing firm.
For them he wrote Le Silence de la mer (1942, tr.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vercors.html   (195 words)

  
 VERCORS
en 1956 vercors alias bruller résidait souvent dans un moulin niché dans la verdure sur les bords de l’aubetin, rivière discrète déjà recherchée pour son charme et l’inspiration que lui inspirait l’endroit.
En effet, Vercors a vécu à Villiers sur Morin jusqu’en 1948 dans une maisons située sur les hauteurs de Villiers.
Le Vercors est un massif montagneux des Alpes qui a été un haut lieu de la Résistance sous l’occupation allemande.
www.terresdecrivains.com /article.php3?id_article=374   (1900 words)

  
 the hotel of the Barral Mount, Vercors, Provence, Drome, Alpes
The hotel of the Barral Mount is located at Nonières, to 850 m altitude, the foot of the high plates of Vercors.
Sylvie, the child of the country, accomodates you all the year, by the road of the Collar of Carried out, in a sympatic nerve small village flowered, a framework enchantor, with many departures of excursions, near to the park of Vercors and with a few kilometers of Drôme.
Does the hotel have of a covered swimming pool, a tennis, a park with activities for the children, of a ground of game of bowls...
www.hotelmontbarral-vercors.com /anglais.html   (117 words)

  
 Vercors escapade, randonnée, escalade en drome, vercors et étranger
Vercors escapade, randonnée, escalade en drome, vercors et étranger
Then, as I got to know the Diois and Vercors region better, I was taken further away around the world with my work as a trekking leader.
I hope therefore to see you or meet you on the trails of the Vercors or even further afield….
www.vercors-escapade.com /english/index.php   (395 words)

  
 Isere-Tourisme.com - Vercors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Le Vercors abrite en son sein un Parc naturel régional, qui l'hiver venu, devient l'eldorado du ski nordique.
Autrans, station olympique au cœur du Parc Régional du Vercors, berceau du ski nordique propose également un ski alpin de qualité, des balades de traîneaux à chiens et des randonnées en raquettes.
Villard-de-Lans et Corrençon-en-Vercors sont deux villages au cœur du Parc Naturel régional du Vercors.
www.isere-tourisme.com /pages/index/id/861   (441 words)

  
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Les hauts plateaux du Vercors sont formés d'une imposante dalle de roche calcaire pouvant atteindre 200 m d'épaisseur et formant par endroit, des falaises abruptes.
Ces roches poreuses drainent les eaux de pluie en profondeur pour former d'immenses cavités parcourues par des rivières souterraines.
Lieu de séjour conseillé : La Chapelle en Vercors, petit village idéalement situé au coeur du Vercors (camping "Les Myosotis").
www.chez.com /lfweb/vercors.html   (341 words)

  
 Camargue & Vercors Trip Report
Just as we entered the Vercors we found a couple of wild orchids growing on the roadside verge (Man and Violet Bird's Nest) and park up to spend a few moments enjoying these lovely flowers; we also found a Bee Orchid.
Pygmy Owl A bird was well seen and another was calling in the distance high in the Vercors on 25th.
The species was also seen in the Vercors on 24th, 25th and 27th.
www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2001/camvers.php   (6285 words)

  
 Hôtel restaurant du golf, situé au coeur du Parc Naturel du Vercors, France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
ses pieds, se déroulent les hauts plateaux du Vercors où une lointaine ferme, un jour, devint un hôtel 3 étoiles.
And at its feet streches the high plateau of Le Vercors where one fine day, a distant farm became a 3-star hotel.
This superbly comfortable guest establishment is astonishing, hailing as the final boundary, the ultimate hearth before reaching the infinitely remoteness of the Vercors Regional Park!
www.planete-vercors.com /hotel-du-golf/votre_accueil.html   (169 words)

  
 Grande Traversée du Vercors
Maar nog is de klim niet gedaan: vandaar gaat het naar de Col de Chau, waar zich de ‘Mémorial de la Résistance’ bevindt, een momument ter nagedachtenis aan de felle en harde strijd die de Franse Weerstand in de Vercors leverde tegen de Duitse bezetter.
De Grande Traversée du Vercors is één van de VTT langeafstandtrajecten van de Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FCC).
Dit is een kleine, maar rustige, en heel propere camping die op een 800 m van het dorp ligt.
www.lexasoft.com /reis/GTV/index.htm   (2793 words)

  
 Parc Naturel Règional du Vercors
Teatro degli eventi legati alla Resistenza il Vercors custodisce, attraverso luoghi simbolo come i villaggi di Valchevrière, Malleval, i Musei della Resistenza di Vassieux e la Chapelle, la memoria di quell'epoca tragica vissuta dalle popolazioni della regione che vide protagonisti i maquisards, i combattenti che si opposero all'occupazione tedesca.
La rivista L'ALPE www.glenatpresse.com che si occupa di cultura e patrimonio ambientale dell'Europa alpina, dedica al Vercors un interessante numero speciale ricco di immagini e testi, delineando un quadro d'insieme del parco tra storia, presente e prospettive di sviluppo.
Vercors Initiation Environnement è un'associazione, nata nel 1987 per iniziativa della Fédération des Amis et Usagers du Parc (FAUP) e del Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors, che ha il compito di diffondere la conoscenza del patrimonio naturale e culturale dell'area protetta per contribuire alla politica locale di pianificazione e sviluppo.
www.infolibro.it /parc_du_vercors.htm   (346 words)

  
 Camargue & Vercors Trip Report
Wood Lark: Four at Beaufort sur Garvanne in the Vercors were seen in song flight and perched on overhead wires.
Coal Tit: Heard and seen daily in the Vercors, where it was the commonest tit on the higher slopes.
The Vercors was magnificent, even more so than most people had expected.
www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2003/camvers.php   (8510 words)

  
 Oiseaux du Vercors: Cartes de répartition de 140 espèces, écologie, distribution selon l'altitude et les facteurs du ...
Le massif du Vercors est soumis à trois grandes influences climatiques (océanique, méditerranéenne et alpine) et comporte quatre étages de végétation (de 200 à 2 341 m d'altitude).
Dans le Vercors, une campagne d'échantillonnage de terrain a généré une importante base de données sur l'avifaune de la région.
Des diagrammes climatiques de cumuls de précipitations mensuels et de températures moyennes sont également disponibles ici pour l'ensemble du Vercors.
alpesoiseaux.free.fr   (869 words)

  
 About Us - Bikeandski-Vercors
As a native inhabitant of the Vercors region, Sandrine has a wealth of experience and knowledge of the community after being employed in the local tourism and hotel industry.
A highly dedicated cyclist with a wealth of alpine riding experience Chris has been riding the Vercors roads for the last fifteen years.
Chris use the Vercors for training himself and others for major multi sport events.
www.bikeandski-vercors.com /aboutus.htm   (652 words)

  
 Vercors Massif   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
France > Alps > Vercors > Vercors Massif
The Vercors Massif, a limestone plateau featuring ridges, valleys and a variety of wildlife, is very pretty and undeveloped, but, unless you're walking, the only way to get around is to drive or hitch.
CIMES leaflets detail a number of walks of varying difficulty around the area from the simplest and most accessible to St-Nizier to other good but more strenuous walks, such as Villard-de-Lans to Claix, near Grenoble (1700m descent; 7hr), and the circuit of Mont Aiguille, starting from Clelles (1hr by train south of Grenoble; 6hr 30min–9hr).
france-for-visitors.com /alps/vercors/vercors-massif.html   (111 words)

  
 Bikeandski-Vercors - Road Cycling, Mountain Bike and Cross Country (xc) Ski Tours in the French Alps
With regular flights from the UK with low cost airlines, why not come and visit the Vercors for a long weekend.
Join us in May 2007 for a week in the Vercors with the Challenge finishing the week off.
The cycling disciplines cover the cols of the high altitude plateau in the Vercors and climb through the mountain gorges typical of the region.
www.bikeandski-vercors.com   (848 words)

  
 randonnée nature accompagnée en vercors, camirando,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lorsqu'on arrive vers Grenoble, notre regard est immanquablement attiré par les immenses falaise du plateau du Vercors.
Nous randonnerons dans le pays des quatre montagnes, la perle des préalpes, terre d'élevage bovin et de tradition fromagère, dans le pays de Coulmes et de Royans, ou la forêt de hêtres domine, le Vercors central avec ses lieux de mémoire de la résistance et ses plaines.
Nous passerons par La Sure, sommet qui domine de plus de 1400m la vallée de l'Isère, le Signal de Nave, un des plus beaux belvédères du Vercors sur la Chartreuse et la vallée de l'Isère et par le sommet le Moucherotte, belvédère exceptionnel sur Grenoble, les alpes du Mont-Blanc, la Chartreuse, Belledonne et Vercors.
www.camirando.com /alpes/vercors.htm   (605 words)

  
 Stages Photo Nature
You are invited to come and share the 35 years of my passion for the wild lands of the Southern Vercors, all in a friendly atmosphere…an exceptional region with a rich and diverse natural and cultural heritage, between the Alps and Provence.
Vercors caché, La plus grande réserve naturelle de France et ses secrets…
Vercors au naturel: Séjours naturalistes dans le Parc Naturel du Vercors
www.stages-photo-nature.com   (147 words)

  
 Gresse En Vercors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The ski resort of Gresse en Vercors is situated in the Vercors area of the Isère department in the Northern Alps region.
The lift served area extends from 1250 metres to 1800 metres.
Gresse en Vercors celabrated 40 years of downhill skiing in 2006.
pistehors.com /backcountry/wiki/Isere-Drome/Gresse-En-Vercors   (220 words)

  
 LA-CHAPELLE-EN-VERCORS - office de tourisme
Traversée du Vercors en ski de fond : Course populaire de ski de fond en bordure de la Réserve Naturelle des Hauts PlateauxUn seul parcours 2 formules : chronométré par équipe de deux.
Le Vercors Drômois est situé dans le Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors aux portes de la plus grande réserve de France : La Réserve Naturelle des Hauts Plateaux du Vercors, Route des Grands Goulets (site classé).
La Chapelle en Vercors : Grotte de la Draye Blanche ; Fontaine aux Ours ; St-Agnan en Vercors : Grotte de la Luire (site classé haut lieu de la résistance), télésiège panoramique, audio-visuel gratuit sur maquette en relief (les hauts plateaux du Vercors : la plus grande réserve naturelle de France).
www.tourisme.fr /office-de-tourisme/la-chapelle-en-vercors-26.htm   (402 words)

  
 Vercors
The cunning plan was for Pendle Caving Club to go on a holiday / expedition to the Vercors as a precursor to a more ambitious project in the future.
After half an hour of screaming round the aisles we emerged with quality items such as orange tea, gerkins, pineapples and more vegetables than you could shake a shitty stick at, and a couple of top birds courtesy of Andy and Pearshape.
We arrived at Hugh Janus's place, a quasi-derelict cowshed somewhere in the Vercors.
www.pendlecc.org.uk /VERCORS.HTM   (1899 words)

  
 Colonie vacances : Vercors Animations, colonie de vacances mer et montagne
Colonie vacances : Vercors Animations, colonie de vacances mer et montagne
Vercors Animations, colonie de vacances mer et montagne
L'association Vercors Animations, organisatrice de loisirs pour enfant, adolescent et adulte, vous présente son savoir faire ainsi que les différents programmes proposés :
www.recre.net   (42 words)

  
 Vercors :welcome on vertacoo. The whole web of the vercors
We hope that this directory will help you prepare your next trip in the Vercors.
Most of the referenced sites are in French, but in the results of your search, those in another language are identified by a national flag.
Dans le cadre des Journées des métiers d'art, les Artisans du Vercors exposent du 20 au 23 octobre au musee de l'eau de Pont en Royans.
www.vercors-net.com /anglais   (245 words)

  
 Golfkurs Buchen - Golf de Corrençon en Vercors, Corrençon-en-Vercors, France (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab6.csail.mit.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At Corrençon en Vercors, one of the most beautiful golf courses in Europe shows itself as a perfect success, as well as providing that highly pleasant sensation of unfamiliarity everybody expects from a top-quality leisure site.
At an altitude of 1100 m,in the heart of the Vercors Regional Park.
The course is open from May to November, Golf lessons from mid June to mid September.
www.golfkurs-buchen.de.cob-web.org:8888 /golf_course.php?golfcourse=37   (165 words)

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