Do you really know La Rosière ?

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We were asked to propose you a quizz. Ready? Play :

1- By the way, why la Rosière is called la Rosière ?
Clue: there’s a link to swamps, when it’s so high, who would believe it ?

2- Why our cheese reblochon has such a strange name?
Clue: “re” is the only part not in dialect

3- How do you call the citizen of Sainte Foy ?
Clue: it reminds a bit New Mexico

4- Have you ever seen cotton up-hill?
Clue: changing a lettre, in the french word, it’s a salad sauce…

5- Who is the most important Patron Saint of Val d’Aosta?
Clue: He could be the Saint Patron of Savoy cooking if we think of his name in French…

*** Bonus question: Which original refugees did the Saint Bernard pass monks welcome during a big snowstorm?
Clue: their tail coat is not so warm, even with a red scarf

 

Answers – La Rosière in pictures:

Du bas-latin roseria, formé sur le germanique raus, devenu ros, le roseau. Nom donné aux lieux où poussent les roseaux.

From Latin roseria, with a german root raus, become ros, reed. Name given to places where reed grows.

 

Re-blocher, traire deux fois en savoyard. Pour cacher le lait, on fait du fromage avec la rebloche.

Re-blocher, milk twice a cow. Out of the second bucket, called rebloche, you made a cheese.

 

La linaigrette, espèce boréale visible au Lac du Retour.

The linaigrette, boreal plant that you can see at Lac du Retour.

 

Les santaférains sont heureux de vous accueillir pour de nombreuses activités...

Santaférains are happy to share their resort with you…

 

Saint Grat

 

Un vol d'hirondelle ! Et si vous aussi, vous aidiez la LPO Savoie à les recenser ?

Lots of swallows on their way! Watch them with the LPO Savoy.

 

Did you answer it right?
You win a little spring song 🙂

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