L’histoire d’un lieu, des anectodes sur un événement de la région
[/caption]La nouvelle bande de prés jouxtant la maison sera maintenant beaucoup plus facile à faucher et à entretenir. Les buissons de ronces qui frangeaient ce mur en particulier et que nous n’arrivions pas à faire disparaître ne sont plus. Et nous avons effacé quelques traces du passé. D’un passé assez Read more…
Such a strange passeport In 1842, Pierre Nicolas Berthet, family lineage ascendant and living in Montvalezan (Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia), wishes to go to saint Chamond (France) – is it about St Chamond (Loire)? – as labourer and thus requests a passport to go to France. The 45×30 cm document is really amazing. Read more…
The Little Saint Bernard Pass links the Tarentaise (in France), to the Aoste Valley (in Italia). A statue of Saint Bernard exorcising the mountain welcomes the travellers coming from La Rosière. Bernard of Menthon, future patron saint of the Alps, and patron saint of mountaineering, founded the hospice at the Read more…
Did the Méribel architect come around here? Christian Durupt drew the refuge du Rosuel at Peisey-Nancroix, up the Mont Pourri. At La Rosière, the wave shaped roof ot the tourists’ office does recall this refuge. It contrasts with the traditionnal architecture consciously preserved by the resort actors. Speaking about up Read more…
The Chapelle Saint-Michel is a must of our region. It’s a hundred-year-old place of worship at the top of a rocky headland. Actually the chapel takes her name from her dominant situation as her famous homonym in Normandy. Don’t forget to have a look “inside” the orientation stick. What a Read more…