Visit the Jardin de Ville, the town’s green gathering point alongside the River Isère, and board the Téléphérique cable cars – known colloquially as “The Bubbles” – for a quick ride to the Bastille.  This fort, nestled high above the town in the Chartreuse mountain range, dates to the 16^th century French Wars of Religion between the Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) and in the centuries since has served as protection from attacks emanating from the surrounding mountains.  At the Bastille, visit the Museum of French Mountain Troops for a narrated audio guide tour among life-size dioramas depicting the life and operations of these soldiers who defend the wintry mountain passes. After this short visit, enjoy the views from the terraces – on a clear day, one can see Mont Blanc – and then walk to a mountaintop group lunch.  Return to town via the bubbles and walk through the city center to the beautiful Place de Verdun, named in memory of the horrific World War I Battle of Verdun and surrounded by some of the city’s most-beautiful examples of Second Empire architecture.  A few steps away, visit the new Museum of the Resistance and Deportation in Isère, where a guide will chronicle the heroic efforts of Free France in Grenoble as they resisted the Nazis and Vichy France until the region’s liberation in 1944.  Dinner on own, then present a concert in conjunction with the Grenoble and Phoenix Sister Cities.