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ISLAND IN THE SUN
Signature Travel & Style
|Volume 52
Set high in the French Alps and glowing with over 300 days of sunshine each year, Alpe d'Huez is an island adrift in white.
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They call it l'Isle du Soleil, the Island in the Sun, though it rises not from water but from snow. Perched on a south-facing plateau in the Grandes Rousses massif in southeastern France, the scale of the resort takes time to fathom.
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