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unusual facts about Val d’Ossola



Anniviers

It was formed through the merger of six municipalities in Val d'Anniviers: Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie.

Champoluc

Champoluc is a village in, and the main centre of the commune of Ayas which is co-extensive with the Val d'Ayas in the province of Val d'Aosta northern Italy.

Champoluc is a well-known ski resort, part of the Monterosa Ski area which connects the upper reaches of the valleys of Ayas, Lys and Valesia (the latter is located in the Piedmont).

Elisabeth Görgl

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined.

Giovanni Battista Ciolina

Giovanni Battista Ciolina (Toceno, Verbania, May 15, 1870 – May 29, 1955) was an Italian painter, painting mainly landscapes and outdoor country scenes in an impressionist style.

Giovanni Marcora

After the Armistice with Italy of 8 September 1943, aged 21, Marcora entered the Italian resistance movement, with the nickname of Albertino, fighting in the province of Milan and the Ossola, and participating in the liberation of Milan on 25 April 1945.

Hell Valley

Val d'Enfer, located near the village of Les Baux-de-Provence in Provence south eastern France

Ihsan Rustem

He has created ballets with Karole Armitage, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Ken Ossola, Georg Reischl and danced further works by  Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, David Parsons and Twyla Tharp, amongst others.

Jimmy Cochran

Cochran's best Olympic finish was 12th in the slalom in 2006, and his best result at the world championships was tenth in the slalom at Val d'Isère in 2009.

Julien Lizeroux

Lizeroux won silver medals in the super combined and the slalom on home snow at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère.

Lara Gut

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.

Melezzo Occidentale

The river is formed by the confluence of various streams to the west of Druogno (which marks the watershed between the western and eastern sections of the Val Vigezzo), and runs westward through the narrow valley which connects the high plain of the central Val Vigezza to the Val d’Ossola.

Montegiovi

Montegiovi is about 50 km from Grosseto and 5 km from Castel del Piano, and it is situated on a hill in the western limit of Val d'Orcia.

Nadia Fanchini

She won a bronze medal in the downhill at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, France, and a silver medal in the downhill at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria.

Origin of the Basques

He found, among other examples, the Basque words "ibai" (river) and "ibar" (bottom) to repeat continuously in European rivers, or the word "haran" (valley) in toponyms such as Val d'Aran, Arendal, Arundel, Arnach, Arnsberg, Aresburg, Ahrensburg, Aranbach or Arnstein.

Pas de Morgins

It is located at the top of the Val de Morgins, which turns off the Val d'Illiez at Troistorrents.

Robert James Thomson

His grandmother's family name was Dell'Oro, as she came from Ossola valley, in Italy.

Sierre coach crash

The passengers, four teachers and 46 pupils from Saint-Lambertus school in Heverlee, Flemish Brabant, and Stekske primary school in Lommel, Limburg, were returning home having spent the previous few days at a skiing resort in Val d'Anniviers in the Swiss Alps.

Tête Blanche

Its summit (3,710 metres) is the tripoint between the valleys of Hérens, Mattertal (both in Valais) and Valpelline (in the Aosta Valley).

Thomas Fanara

In 2007 in Åre, Sweden, he finished 16th, but on home country snow in 2009 in Val d'Isère, France, he did not finish the first run.

Walser

These are: Gressoney-La-Trinité, Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Issime (Lys Valley, in the Aosta Valley); Formazza, Macugnaga (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province); Alagna Valsesia, Rima San Giuseppe, Rimella (Sesia Valley or Valsesia, in Vercelli province).


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