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Bridges and age-old homes in the Champorcher valley
An original architecture, linked to the impervious land In a rocky and sloping valley like Champorcher, crossing the river banks was not an easy task…
Mont Avic Regional Park visitors centre - Champorcher
The building
The visitors centre of the Mont Avic Nature Park was created by restoring ‘Villa Biamonti’, a building constructed in the first years of the 20t…
Champorcher Castle
As the Bard Fortress, Champorcher Castle also belonged to the powerful Lords of Bard, until the fratricidal war between William and Hugo in 1212. Little is known of this early building: we kno…
Miserin Sanctuary
Built in 1658, however the current building is the result of reconstruction work in 1881, based on an initiative by the parish priest Jean-Baptiste Danna and the abbot Pierre Chanoux, and th…
Parish church of San Nicola
The parish church is the result of the reconstruction of the previous church (which dates back to 1532 and which was probably built on an older church), which was carried out in 1728 by th…
Exhibition of hemp processing
Hemp weaving was an important activity in Champorcher. Production was carried out by almost all families until the end of the 1950s.
Raw materials came from the villages of Arnad and Donna…
Hemp Ecomuseum
The museum is closed for renovations. The museum is situated inside an ancient building in the centre of the village of Chardonney, near to the “Lo Dzeut”…
