Val-d'Illiez

Val- d'Illiez

Val- d'Illiez is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the French speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The place belongs to the Portes du Soleil.

Geography

The municipality of Val -d'Illiez located in the Val d' Illiez at the Vièze, a western tributary of the Rhone. On the political municipality of Val -d'Illiez include in addition to the village of Val- d'Illiez the two of them clearly remote hamlet of Les Crosets and Cham Poussin. The municipality is bordered to the north by Chemex, to the east by Vérossaz, on the southeast by Saint- Maurice, in the south-southeast at Evionnaz, to the south of Champery, on the west by Châtel (Haute -Savoie, France) and in the north- northwest by an exclave of the municipality of Monthey.

Personalities

From Val- d'Illiez (more precisely: the district of Les Crosets ) came the ex - skier Corinne Rey- Bellet.

Attractions

Parish Church of St- Maurice, first mentioned in the 13th century, rebuilt in 1687th The nave building with a square choir is at the entrance to a partially medieval bell tower in front. Inside altars from the 18th century from a local workshop.

Next to the church stands the Priory was built in 1711.