Barrage de Tignes

metropolitan France · France

Barrage de Tignes, France
Photo: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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summer
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One of the tallest arch dams in Europe at about 180 metres, completed in 1952 on the Isere to form the Lac du Chevril. A giant fresco of a mountain figure decorates its downstream face.

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