Modane, the Glossary
Modane is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.[1]
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A43 autoroute
The A43 autoroute, also known as l'autoroute alpine and l'autoroute de la Maurienne, is a motorway in France.
Aiguille de Péclet
Aiguille de Péclet (3,561 m) is a mountain of Savoie, France.
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Aiguille de Scolette
Aiguille de Scolette (in French) or Pierre Menue (in Italian) is a mountain of Savoie (F) and of the province of Turin (I).
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Aiton, Savoie
Aiton is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Aiton, Savoie are communes of Savoie.
Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the typical climate for elevations above the tree line, where trees fail to grow due to cold.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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Apartment hotel
An apartment hotel or aparthotel (also residential hotel, or extended-stay hotel) is a serviced apartment complex that uses a hotel-style booking system.
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Arc (Savoie)
The Arc is a river in the Savoie département of south-eastern France.
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals".
Aussois
Aussois is a commune in the Vanoise massif, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Aussois are communes of Savoie.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA)Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi.
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Avrieux
Avrieux is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Avrieux are communes of Savoie.
Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia (Bardonecia; Bardonescha) is an Italian town and comune located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley.
Basic research
Basic research, also called pure research, fundamental research, basic science, or pure science, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena.
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image.
Chairlift
An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel wire rope loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs.
Chambéry
Chambéry (Arpitan: Chambèri) is the prefecture and largest city of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. Modane and Chambéry are communes of Savoie.
Civil aviation
Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military and non-state aviation, both private and commercial.
Communes of France
The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.
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Communes of the Savoie department
The following is a list of the 273 communes of the Savoie department of France. Modane and communes of the Savoie department are communes of Savoie.
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Continental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).
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Corbas
Corbas (Corbê) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
Culoz–Modane railway
The Culoz–Modane railway (sometimes called Ligne de la Maurienne) is a long railway running from Culoz, near Chambéry, through Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Modane in France.
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Dôme de Polset
Dôme de Polset is a mountain of Savoie, France.
Decauville
Decauville was a manufacturing company which was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922), a French pioneer in industrial railways.
Dent Parrachée
Dent Parrachée is a mountain of Savoie, France.
Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ("Italian State Railways JSC"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate services and other services in Italy and other European countries.
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Fleur-de-lis
The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean and respectively).
Fort du Replaton
The Fort du Replaton is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system in Modane, France.
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Fourneaux, Savoie
Fourneaux (Fornyo) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Fourneaux, Savoie are communes of Savoie.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Fréjus Rail Tunnel
The Fréjus Rail Tunnel (also called Mont Cenis Tunnel) is a rail tunnel of length in the European Alps, carrying the Turin–Modane railway through Mont Cenis to an end-on connection with the Culoz–Modane railway and linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France.
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Fréjus Road Tunnel
The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a tunnel that connects France and Italy.
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French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies.
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French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
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Freney
Freney is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Freney are communes of Savoie.
Gîte
A gîte or gite is, typically, a holiday rental home in France, but there are many interpretations of the term 'gîte'.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gules
In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red.
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Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes (Auts Aups; Upper Alps) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France.
Holiday cottage
A holiday cottage, holiday home, vacation home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations, corporate travel, and temporary housing often for less than 30 days.
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Holiday village
A holiday village (abbreviated HV) is a holiday resort where the visitors stay in villas.
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Hospitality industry
The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and beverage services, event planning, theme parks, travel agency, tourism, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and bars.
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Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.
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Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
The French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (French: Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, IN2P3), also known as CNRS Nucléaire & Particules, is the coordinating body for nuclear and particle physics in France.
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kingdom of Sardinia
The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: Regnum Sardiniae, or Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica.
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La Norma
La Norma is a ski resort in the Maurienne Valley, located in the commune of Villarodin-Bourget, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Les Allues
Les Allues (Savoyard Arpitan: Los Alués) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. Modane and Les Allues are communes of Savoie.
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
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Maginot Line
The Maginot Line (Ligne Maginot), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.
Massif des Cerces
Massif des Cerces is a region of the French Alps on the Franco-Italian border.
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Maurienne
Maurienne (Môrièna) is one of the provinces of Savoy, corresponding to the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in France.
Météo-France
Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Military aircraft
A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary military of any type.
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Miscellaneous left
Miscellaneous left (Divers gauche, DVG) in France refers to left-wing candidates who are not members of any party or a member of party that has no elected seats.
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Modane station
Modane is a railway station located in Modane, Savoie, France.
Modane Underground Laboratory
The Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane; also known as the Fréjus Underground Laboratory) is a subterranean particle physics laboratory located within the Fréjus Road Tunnel near Modane, France.
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Mont Blanc Tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in the Alps.
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Mont Cenis
Mont Cenis (Moncenisio) is a massif in Savoie (France) (with an elevation of at Pointe de Ronce and a pass at an elevation of), which forms the limit between the Cottian and Graian Alps.
Montmélian
Montmélian is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Montmélian are communes of Savoie.
Monument historique
Monument historique is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.
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Névache
Névache (Nevascha) is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.
Ohmden
Ohmden is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
ONERA
The Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (ONERA) is the French national aerospace research centre.
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Or (heraldry)
In heraldry, or (/ɔːʁ/; French for "gold") is the tincture of gold and, together with argent (silver), belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals".
Orelle
Orelle is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Orelle are communes of Savoie.
Ouvrage Saint-Gobain
Ouvrage Saint-Gobain is a work (gros ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line.
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Pale (heraldry)
In heraldry and vexillology, a pale is a charge consisting of a band running vertically down the centre of a shield or flag.
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Paper mill
A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Pechiney
Pechiney SA was a major aluminium conglomerate based in France.
Pine liqueur
Pine liqueur, pine brandy, and pine schnapps are spirits distilled from stone pine trees (in German: Zirbelkiefern).
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine, Arolla pine, Austrian stone pine, or just stone pine, is a species of pine tree in the subgenus Strobus.
Plateau d'Assy
Plateau d'Assy is a region in the French Alps, in Haute-Savoie department, France, near the border of Italy.
Player piano
A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls.
Pointe de l'Échelle
The Pointe de l'Échelle (3,442 m) is a mountain in the Vanoise Massif in Savoie, France.
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Pointe Rénod
Pointe Rénod is a mountain of Savoie, France.
Pralognan-la-Vanoise
Pralognan-la-Vanoise or simply Pralognan (Pralonyan) is an alpine commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. Modane and Pralognan-la-Vanoise are communes of Savoie.
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Puiseaux
Puiseaux is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
Punta Bagnà
Punta Bagnà (in Italian) or Cime du Grand Vallon (in French) is a mountain of Savoie, France and of the Province of Turin, Italy.
Réseau Ferré de France
Réseau ferré de France (RFF, French Rail Network) was a French company which owned and maintained the French national railway network from 1997 to 2014.
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Refuge du Mont Thabor
Refuge du Mont Thabor is a refuge in the Alps.
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Regions of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).
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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company.
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Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
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Roc des Saints Pères
Roc des Saints Pères is a mountain of Savoie, France.
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Route nationale 6
The Route nationale 6 is a trunk road (nationale) in France between Paris and the frontier with Italy in the Alps.
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Sable (heraldry)
In British heraldry, sable is the tincture equivalent to black.
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Saint-André, Savoie
Saint-André (Sant-André) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Saint-André, Savoie are communes of Savoie.
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Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
Saint-Martin-de-Belleville is a former commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
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Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne
Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne are communes of Savoie.
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Savoie
Savoie (Arpitan: Savouè or Savouè-d'Avâl; English: Savoy) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France.
Séré de Rivières system
The Séré de Rivières system was an ensemble of fortifications built from 1874 along the frontiers, ridges and coasts of France.
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Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.
SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (abbreviated as SNCF; "National Company of the French Railways") is France's national state-owned railway company.
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Tarentaise Valley
The Tarentaise Valley (Vallée de la Tarentaise,; Tarentèsa) is a valley of the Isère River in the heart of the French Alps, located in the Savoy region of France.
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TGV
The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse,, "high-speed train"; formerly TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated mainly by SNCF.
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Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.
Treaty of Turin (1860)
The Treaty of Turin (Trattato di Torino; Traité de Turin) concluded between France and Piedmont-Sardinia on 24 March 1860 is the instrument by which the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice were annexed to France, ending the centuries-old Italian domination of the region.
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Trompe-l'œil
paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.
Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
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Turin–Lyon high-speed railway
The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is an international rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon.
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Vacation rental
A vacation rental is the renting out of a furnished apartment, house, or professionally managed resort-condominium complex on a temporary basis to tourists as an alternative to a hotel.
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Valfréjus
Valfréjus is a ski resort in the Maurienne Valley, located in the commune of Modane, in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Vanoise massif
The Vanoise massif is a mountain range of the Graian Alps, located in the Western Alps.
Vanoise National Park
Vanoise National Park (Parc national de la Vanoise) is a French national park between the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys in the French Alps, containing the Vanoise massif.
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Villarodin-Bourget
Villarodin-Bourget (Velârôdin-lo-Borgèt) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Modane and Villarodin-Bourget are communes of Savoie.
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Wind tunnel
Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and the moving air.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
2011 Tour de France
The 2011 Tour de France was the 98th edition of the race.
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2015 Tour de France
The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modane
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