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Centre de Megève en automne
Sight, in autumn, of Megève downtown, in Haute-Savoie , France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Sight, in autumn, of Megève downtown, in Haute-Savoie , France
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Megève
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Megève.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Megève is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France with a population of about 2,900 residents.
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2017
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
In April 2017, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, was named an honorary citizen of Megève.
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1921
A route reaches Megève
In 1921, Baroness Noémie de Rothschild (1888–1968) opened the Domaine du Mont d'Arbois, a luxury hotel which boosted the resort's development.
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FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 -
FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 - Saut. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 - Saut
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
The town started its development as a ski resort in the 1910s, when the Rothschild family began spending their winter vacations there after becoming disenchanted with the Swiss resort St. Moritz.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Megève is recorded at 45.856° N, 6.618° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,353 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Ledger AOD.EU.MEGEVE.V00
Centre de Megève en automne
Sight, in autumn, of Megève downtown, in Haute-Savoie , France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Sight, in autumn, of Megève downtown, in Haute-Savoie , France
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Megève now
By the 1950s Megève was one of the most popular ski resorts in Europe and attracted many wealthy individuals and celebrities.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Centre de Megève en automne
AOD.EU.MEGEVE.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 -
AOD.EU.MEGEVE.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Megève overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.