Vouvry

Vouvry

Vouvry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the French speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. High above the Rhone Valley is the - 1999 taken out of service - the only oil thermal power station in Switzerland ( Centrale Thermique de Vouvry ).

Geography

The 33.54 km ² large municipality comprises essentially a section of the Rhone Valley in the east and by filled.The from Bach Le Fossau valley and the adjacent mountains in the west. On the west, on the border with France, the Col de Verne is (1814 m), which can be crossed on foot and La Chapelle d' Abondance (F ) results. In addition to the main settlement of Vouvry located in the municipality of territory belonging to the section of the Rhone valley, the hamlet Barges. West of the main settlement area performs a winding road to the settlement Vésenand, which lies on an elevated terrace and offers an exceptional view towards the southeast of the Rhone Valley. The road goes in a westerly direction into the valley and leads to Miex and finally ends in Le Flon. From here you can ascend to the Lac de Tanay.

In a Talkehle, nestled between steep cliffs and tall trees, is the Lac de Tanay and the hamlet of Tanay. The idyllic surroundings of the lake and the extraordinary flora and fauna (mainly occurring at the shore area amphibians) are of national importance. Why is at this point since the 1960s, a nature reserve.

North of the main settlement of the Vouvry is located between a mountain foot of the Alps and the Rhone bottleneck Porte Scex. Especially earlier this place was a major transportation hub, since you from here to the north to Le Bouveret (Port -Valais ) and finally into France, to the east of the Rhone to Aigle to Villeneuve VD -Vevey -Montreux and to the south Wallis comes ( Monthey ). Today, along the main road and the railway line Evian -Saint -Maurice passes bottleneck of Porte du Scex. The Castle of Porte du Scex was probably first built in the period of the High Middle Ages. She served as a collection point for the customs fees that had to be paid in the passage. Today's castle dates largely from 1678 and belongs to the municipality Vouvry.

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Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland Vionnaz Municipalities of the canton of Valais
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