Located at the foot of Mont Blanc, it is the last municipality you meet before arriving in France through the Mont Blanc Tunnel (which connects it to Chamonix); it is crossed by the Dora Baltea, a river that arises from the confluence of two streams, each of which crosses one of the two valleys that can be reached from Courmayeur: Val Ferret and Val Veny. It is about 27 kilometers north-west from Aosta.
It is the westernmost municipality (6 ° 48'03 '') in the Valle d'Aosta region, and the second largest. It is also the only municipality in Italy to border with both France and Switzerland, although there are no transit routes that lead directly to Swiss territory. The landslide of Mont de La Saxe, above the homonymous hamlet and visible also from the hamlets of Entrèves and La Palud, is considered one of the most interesting landslides in Italy (8.4 million square meters) and is under observation by geologists around the world, especially after the recent acceleration of its movement. Courmayeur's popularity was initially linked to thermal tourism in the 17th century, thanks to the four sources of sulphurous water. Towards the second half of the 18th century, exploration and study of the mountains of the Mont Blanc massif began in search of a way to reach the summit of Mont Blanc. After some reconnaissance attempts made by the Geneva mountaineer and naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure together with the guide Jean-Laurent Jordaney, originally from Pré-Saint-Didier, the first ascent was made in 1786 on the French side accompanied by the guides Michel Paccard and Jacques Balmat Chamonix.
Courmayeur, together with Chamonix and Zermatt, later became one of the capitals of world mountaineering and was home to the first Alpine guides company in Italy, the Alpine Guides Society of Courmayeur (in French, Société des guides de Courmayeur) in 1850 (formalized however in 1868). During the 19th century, royalty lived there regularly. Since the 20th century, following the construction of ski resorts, it has become one of the most important ski resorts in the Alps. On 23 February 2013 the city council unanimously approved the change of name of the municipality in Courmayeur-Mont- Blanc. The decision should have been ratified through a popular referendum, called by the Regional Council on 1 June 2014, which however did not reach the quorum, therefore the denomination remained unchanged.
Courmayeur
Address: Viale Monte Bianco, 40, 11013
Phone: 0165 831311
Site:
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