Gressoney Saint Jean trip planner

Gressoney-Saint-Jean is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy.Points of interest Giardino Botanico Alpino "Castel Savoia", an alpine botanical gardenWalser culture and languageThough historically Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité are 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. They were united into one commune named Gressoney from 1928 until 1946, when the two former communes were reconstituted.An example of Greschòneytitsch:Notable people The Squinobal brothers Oreste, Arturo and Lorenzo, all of them mountain climbers, mountain guides and ski mountaineers, were born in Gressoney.