Île Verte (Grenoble)

Île Verte is a neighborhood in Grenoble, France, located in a bend in the river Isère.

The landmark Residence Île Verte, popularly referred to as "the Three Towers of Grenoble," was built within a park in the Île Verte district between 1963 and 1967, on a plan by Roger Anger and Pierre Puccinelli.

At a height of 98 meters (not counting the antenna), the three towers were the highest inhabited buildings in Europe when they were completed, with a total of 504 apartments spread among 28 inhabited floors, each tower containing a total of 33 stories.

It is still in use, augmented in 1941 by the cemetery of the Grand Sablon at La Tronche, on the other side of the Isère.

Some of the funerary monuments have real artistic value, among them the works of Grenoble sculptors Victor Sappey and Henri Ding.