Orsières

Orsières

Orsières is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the French speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The part belonging to Orsières hamlet of La Fouly is on the alpine trail Tour du Mont- Blanc. In the southwest of the community is the Mont Dolent where to 3,820 m above sea level. M. the border triangle between France, Italy and Switzerland is located.

Personalities

  • Maurice Tornay (1910-1949), Augustinian Canons in Tibet, born in La Rosière, community Orsières, and beatified as a martyr
  • Jean Troillet (* 1948 in Orsières ), Mountaineer
  • Maurice Tornay (* 1953), politician, State Council of the Canton of Valais since 2009, lives in Orsières

Attractions

Saint Nicolas

Place Centrale

Chapelle de Saint Eusèbe

Lac de Champex ( Commune d' Orsières )

Orsières station with train

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