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Évançon
The Évançon (sometimes written ''Évençon'') is the stream which flows through the val d'Ayas and flows into the Doire baltée. Its name in Franco-Provençal language, Franco-Provençal might mean "Grand River" or "River from the Mountaintops" (''eva d'en som''). In archival documents it is often referred to as ''l'eau blanche'' (french language, French for "White water"). The Unité des communes valdôtaines de l'Évançon takes its name from the stream. Course The stream has its origin in the Great Glacier of Verra at the top of the val d'Ayas. After coursing right through the valley, the Évançon flows into the Dora Baltea in Verrès, near the bridge of Fleuran. It flows through: Ayas, Aosta Valley, Ayas, Brusson, Aosta Valley, Brusson, Challand-Saint-Anselme and Challand-Saint-Victor. Near Targnod in the commune of Challand-Saint-Victor, the stream flows through the ''Gorge de Brisecou'' (French language, French for "Breakneck Gorge") where it feeds the Isollaz Falls. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayas, Aosta Valley
Ayas ( or ; Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Gressoney ; between 1939 and 1945) is a ''comune, comune sparso'' in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy, with 1359 inhabitants in 2010. Geography It is made up of several ''Frazione, frazioni'' (locally officially called ''hameaux'', in French language, French), the two major ones being Antagnod which holds the town hall and the main parish, and Champoluc. All the ''frazioni'' of Ayas were combined under the one jurisdictional parish of Saint-Martin d'Antagnod in 1761. They remained combined in this way until the new parish of Sainte-Anne of Champoluc was built in 1946. The comune of Ayas lies up the Ayas valley from Brusson, Aosta Valley, Brusson. Physical geography The comune of Ayas occupies the upper part of the Ayas Valley, homonymous valley at the feet of the great peaks of the Pennine Alps, which separate it from Zermatt in the Mattertal (Switzerland) and mark the border between Italy and Switzerland. The most notable of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isollaz Falls
The Isollaz Falls (; ) are a waterfall along the Évançon river near Challand-Saint-Victor in the Aosta Valley, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... It has a drop of about 50 meters, making it one of the highest in the region. References External links Waterfalls of Aosta Valley {{Waterfall-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doire Baltée
The Dora Baltea () or Doire Baltée () is a river in the Aosta Valley and in Piedmont, in northwestern Italy. It is a left-hand tributary of the Po and is about long. Name The river's Latin name was ''Duria maior'', ''Duria Baltica'' or ''Duria Bautica''. Strabo called it Δουριας (''Dourias'') in Greek. The name comes from the Celtic root *''dubr-'' ("flow"), itself from the Proto-Indo-European root *''dʰew-'' ("flow"). This root can be found in many European river names, such as Douro. The second element may derive from the Illyrian root *''balta'' ("‘swamp, marsh, white clay"). The river is called in Arpitan, in Valdôtain, and in Piedmontese. Geography It originates by Mont Blanc as the confluence of the Dora di Ferret, fed by the Pré de Bar Glacier in Val Ferret, and the Dora di Veny, fed by the Miage Glacier and Brenva Glacier in Val Veny. As it crosses the Aosta Valley, the Dora Baltea flows through the city of Aosta (where the Buthier runs int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrès Castle
Verrès Castle (, ) is a fortified 14th-century castle in Verrès, in the lower Aosta Valley, in north-western Italy. It has been called one of the most impressive buildings from the Middle Ages in the area. Built as a military fortress by Yblet de Challant in the fourteenth century, it was one of the first examples of a castle constructed as a single structure rather than as a series of buildings enclosed in a circuit wall. The castle stands on a rocky promontory on the opposite side of the Dora Baltea from Issogne Castle. The castle dominates the town of Verrès and the access to the Val d'Ayas. From the outside it looks like an austere cube, thirty metres long on each side and practically free of decorative elements. History Origins The earliest documents attesting the existence of a castle at Verrès (in the possession of the De Verretio family) date to 1287. At that time, control of the area was contested between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta, Bishop of Aosta and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
