Highly varied landscapes and an impressive tourism offer make Rhône-Alpes a region of good living, which its inhabitants and an ever-growing number of visitors appropriate with great ease. The most extensive ski slopes are here and, if all of the regions ski-lifts were joined end to end, they would cover the distance from Lyon to Cairo. The fact that the Winter Olympics have been held three times in the region (1^st Winter Olympics at Chamonix in 1924, 10^th Winter Olympics at Grenoble in 1968 and 16^th Winter Olympics at Albertville, Savoie, in 1992) has solidly underlined this sporting identity.
Rhône-Alpes has a wealth of museums, including Lyon's Saint-Pierre Museum, the leading French museum after the Louvre, the National centre of Contemporary Art of Grenoble, or Saint-Etienne's Museum of Modern Art. The National Opera of Lyon enables music lovers to cultivate their passion and a wider public to discover the greatest names of the classical and contemporary repertoires.
One of the best equipped and most abounding regions of France in terms of theatres, Rhône-Alpes has five National Theatres and five national drama centres, including the TNP of Villeurbanne, la Comédie of Saint-Étienne, the National drama centre of Savoie...
A Higher National Conservatory of music and dance.
Neighbourhoods of Lyon listed as UNESCO world heritage sites.
Internationally renowned events and festivals (Fête des Lumières, Jazz à Vienne, Biennials of contemporary art and dance).
As Lyon was the birthplace of the Lumière brothers, inventors of cinema, the 7^th Art,  Rhône-Alpes is among the regions with the highest numbers of cinema-goers. It is also the setting of rich cinematographic output, with Rhône-Alpes cinéma .