Alpe d'Huez

L'Alpe d'Huez is a ski resort and high mountain pasture in south-eastern France, lying between about 1,250 and 3,330 metres in the commune of Huez in the Isère department. It sits in the Grandes Rousses massif above the Oisans valley, some 59 km from Grenoble, and is reached from the city by the Route nationale 91 along the Romanche valley through Livet-et-Gavet and Le Bourg-d'Oisans, or over the Col de Sarenne. To cycling fans it is one of the sport's landmark venues: the Tour de France climbs it regularly, and in 2013 the race went up it twice on the same day. The site has been occupied since the Middle Ages, when the silver-mining settlement of Brandes grew up east of the resort; it is the only medieval mining village of its kind preserved in full and is a listed historic monument. In 2019 the resort also hosted the first Tomorrowland Winter festival.