Gressoney-Saint-Jean

Gressoney-Saint-Jean

Gressoney-Saint-Jean

Comune in Aosta Valley, Italy

Gressoney-Saint-Jean (Gressoney Walser: Greschòney Zer Chilchu; Arpitan: Gressonèy-Sèn-Dzan) is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy.

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Geography

The town is situated in a valley formed by the torrent Lys which is fed by the Lys glacier.

History, Walser culture and language

Though Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité form two separate comunes they form a Walser German cultural unity known as Greschòney or Creschnau in Greschoneytitsch (or simply Titsch), the local Walser German dialect, or Kressenau in German.

  • The Church of St John in the Òbre Platz
  • The Savoy Castle
  • Memorial plaque of the 1868 flood written in German and Italian
  • Gressoney-St-Jean in the Lys valley
  • Carlo Mollino mountain hut and Corno Rosso (Ròthòre), above Gressoney-St-Jean

In 1868, the Lys flooded the village.

From 1928 until 1946 the two were united into one commune, officially named Gressoney, which from 1939 onward was Italianized as Gressonei. After WWII, the two former communes were reconstituted as well as their original name in French.[3]

An example of Greschòneytitsch:

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Points of interest

References

  1. [1]
    "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. [3]
    R.D. 22 luglio 1939, n. 1442
  4. [4]
    "Das Vaterunser auf Walserisch (Greschòney)" (in Walser). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 2006. Retrieved 2011-05-13.



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