Valtournenche
Encyclopedia
Valtournenche is a town
and comune
in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy
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Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
and comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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Notable people
- Jean-Antoine CarrelJean-Antoine Carrelthumb|Jean-Antoine Carrel was an Italian mountain climber. He had done climbs with Edward Whymper and was his rival when he attempted to climb the Matterhorn for the first time. Carrel was in the group that became the first Europeans to reach the summit of Chimborazo in 1880...
(1829-1890), mountain climber - Jean-Joseph Maquignaz (1829-1890), mountain climber
- Georges Carrel (1800-1870), canon, mountain climber and botanist
- Luigi CarrelLuigi CarrelLuigi Carrel aka "Carrelino" was an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer.Luigi Carrel was the son of the mountain guide Jean-Joseph Carrel and his wife Joséphine Pellissier. He was born in Cheneil, village of Valtournanche...
(1901-1983), mountain climber