higher seasons more than three months, but its strategic location near major urban centers (including Grenoble), the approximation of the neighboring station Planolet, the family atmosphere and affordable prices made that it experienced in 2005 and 2006 its largest turnover in terms of selling packages. Winter sports (mainly alpine skiing but Nordic skiing or snowshoeing) relate to the heart of the township the massive 90 million euros per year and are make a work-life to a large number of Chartroussins. Crafts are not left out, and the village is home to masons, stonecutters, carpenters, and all corporations of the building ... Tourism remains one of the very solid players of the Chartreuse Massif and the township. Many visitors come to discover the Grande Chartreuse monastery founded by St. Bruno in 1084 and especially the Museum of the Grande Chartreuse at the Correrie dedicated to it: 60,000 visitors / year. The shops are also present: bakery, butchery, supermarket, pharmacy, newsagent, cheese, bars, hotels, restaurants, sports shops, salon. Personalities The painter Arcabas realized paintings that are in the church of Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse, the second hamlet in the township. Guy Lafond, son of the former mayor and brother of former motorcycle champion who is woodcarver ; Jacques Brel lived in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse. You can see his house on the edges of the ski slopes. In tribute to the great singer, a festival of French musicians called "Les rencontres Brel" (Brel meetings) takes place every summer in a large tent erected in the middle of the central square. Paul Touvier was employed as a secretary by the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in 1972 under the name of Paul Berthet (that was the name of his wife). It was under this name that the inhabitants of the village, including former resistant, knew him as well as Jacques Brel, whose he was the impresario. Raoul Billioti (1828-1882), MP for Vaucluse. Alain Longet, sculptor, Meilleur Ouvrier de France is linked to the town by his participation in the competition for three years on Wood challenge at St Pierre at Brel meetings. This artist has exhibited permanently in the United States, the Grand Palais in Paris, and Elysee Palace. He is the creator and VIVARTS ARTMETAL . Events Race ski mountaineering "The Cross Chamechaude "in early March; Mountain trail, Le Grand Duc, race taking place the last weekend of June or first of July, sponsored by the company Raidlight