Rhône-Alpes

/ ronalp /

noun

1. a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère

Example Sentences

The trial was led by the University of Leeds in collaboration with the The Rhône-Alpes Research Center for Human Nutrition.

From Science Daily

Nearly 10,000 homes are still without power in the southeast Rhône-Alpes region after storms overnight Thursday to Friday.

From The Guardian

News of the national investigation has vindicated the work of Remera, the publicly funded organisation that has documented and researched cases in the Rhône-Alpes region, including Ain.

From The Guardian

It could even serve kiwi wine, which Alexandre Villard was pouring somewhere in the borderlands between Rhône-Alpes and Alsace.

From The New Yorker

On Thursday, the city of Lyon, in France’s Rhône-Alpes region, canceled its annual festival of lights, which usually draws two million to three million people in early December.

From New York Times