Section 3 of 7
Villages
Five places that had to decide what to do about the twentieth century.
-
Start here
Bonneval-sur-Arc Held the Line
How Bonneval-sur-Arc — at the head of the upper Maurienne — resisted the architectural alterations that changed most comparable villages, and what that resistance cost and preserved. The piece uses the village's listed status and its position below the Iseran as its frame.
-
Villages
In 1952 the Water Came Up Over the Church
The flooding of the old village of Tignes by the Chevril dam reservoir — the decision, the 1952 date, the displacement of residents and the construction of the new resort.
Villages
Bessans and the Things Made from Its Wood
A portrait of Bessans as a village whose winter economy was built on woodcarving — the tradition, its documented subjects and its relationship to the valley's isolation above the Bonneval road.
Villages
The Cheese That Made a Cooperative Necessary
Beaufort's AOC requirements are not marketing language — they are engineering constraints that forced the valley's producers into a single room.
Villages
Albiez-Montrond: Nine Tenths Vertical
A village on the south-facing shoulder of the Maurienne that sits close enough to the valley floor to see it — and far enough above to understand it.
Located on the map
- 1Albiez-MontrondVillages1,500 m
- 2Bonneval-sur-ArcVillages1,835 m
- 3TignesVillages2,100 m
- 4BeaufortVillages750 m
Altitudes IGN. Numbers correspond to the pins.
Where the section sits on the ground, at true coordinates.
Geometry: IGN / project map kit