Arâches-la-Frasse ( French pronunciation: [aʁaʃ la fʁas] ) is commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France .
4-520: Situated in the northern French Alps , the commune sits on a large sunny plateau overlooking the Arve Valley southeast of the town of Cluses . It is part of the canton of Sallanches. The main villages in the commune are Arâches, Les Carroz, and La Frasse. Until the 1930s the village of Les Carroz was a simple farming hamlet with only a few houses. It is now developing into the nearest large ski resort to Geneva . By 1981 Les Carroz had been linked to
8-545: The Alps, and the highest Western European mountain . Notable towns in the French Alps include Grenoble , Chamonix , Annecy , Chambéry , Évian-les-Bains and Albertville . The largest connected ski areas are: The other large ski areas are: A range of winter and summer activities are available in the French Alps. In the winter, these include skiing and snowboarding as well as alternatives such as snowshoeing, sledging. There
12-667: The nearby ski villages of Samoëns , Morillon and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval , and the resort of Flaine , developed in the 1960s. The Grand-Massif ski area had been born. The gondola and chairlift in Les Carroz can take skiers straight up to the extensive skiing in the Grand Massif. This Haute-Savoie geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . French Alps The French Alps ( French : Alpes françaises ; Arpitan : Ârpes francêses ; Occitan : Aups francesas ; Ligurian : Arpi françéixi ) are
16-721: The portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France , located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif , are shared with Switzerland and Italy . At 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), Mont Blanc , on the France–Italy border , is the highest mountain in
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