Valtournenche

{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox Italian comune | name = Valtournenche | official_name = Comune di Valtournenche<br>Commune de Valtournenche | native_name = ''Vótornéntse'' (Valdôtain) | image_skyline = Panor Valtournenche abc1.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_shield = Valtournenche-Stemma.svg | shield_size = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|45|53|N|07|37|E|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Aosta Valley | province = none | frazioni = Les Arsines, Avouil, La Barmasse, Les Battendières, Le Bioley, La Brengaz, Le Breuil, Chaloz, Champcartanaz, Champlève, Les Châtelards, Cheneil, Cheperon, Les Clous, Crépin, Le Crêt, Crétaz, Le Crêt-des-Perrères, Le Crou-Dessous, Le Crou-Dessus, Duerche, L'Évette, Facebellaz, La Fontanaz, Le Glair, La Glarénaz, Le Gouffre-des-Busserailles, Le Lac-Bleu, Les Laviels, Losanche, Le Loz, Maën, La Maisonnasse, La Montat, Le Mont-Mené, Le Mont-Perron, Le Moulin, La Murenche, Pâquier (chef-lieu), Pecou, Les Perrères, Pessey, Les Ponteils, Les Prés, Promindot, Les Saix, La Servaz, Singlin, Tourtourouse, Ussin, Valmartin, La Venal<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arrêté n° 479 du 21 septembre 2023 / Decreto 21 settembre 2023, n. 479 |url=https://www.regione.vda.it/amministrazione/leggi/bollettino_ufficiale_new/archive/2023/46-2023-2.pdf#Page=1 |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=Bollettino Ufficiale della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta / Bulletin Officiel de la Région autonome Vallée d’Aoste |publisher=Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta / Région Autonome Vallée d'Aoste |page=3433}}</ref> | mayor_party = | mayor = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 115 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 2178 | population_as_of = 31 December 2022 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Valtournains | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1528 | twin1 = | twin1_country = |istat=| saint = | day = | postal_code = 11028 | area_code = 0166 | website = http://www.comune.valtournenche.ao.it | footnotes = }} '''Valtournenche''' ({{IPA|fr|valtuʁnɑ̃ʃ|lang|Fr-Valtournenche.mp3}}; Valdôtain: {{lang|frp|Vótornéntse}}) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy, {{cvt|1500|m}} above the sea level. It is named after and covers the upper side of the ''Valtournenche'', a valley on the left side of the Dora Baltea, from Châtillon to the Matterhorn. Valtournenche municipality includes Breuil-Cervinia, whose ski resort is linked to Zermatt, Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Valtournenche |url=http://www.cervinia.it/it/inverno/valtournenche |website=Cervinia Ski Paradise |publisher=Cervinia.it |access-date=11 October 2018 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226184952/https://www.cervinia.it/it/inverno/valtournenche |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==

==Notable people== * Jean-Antoine Carrel (1829–1890), mountain climber * Jean-Joseph Maquignaz (1829–1890), mountain climber * Georges Carrel (1800–1870), canon, mountain climber and botanist * Luigi Carrel (1901–1983), mountain climber * Piero Maquignaz, skier and mountain climber

<gallery> File:The Maën lake, Valtournenche, Italy.jpeg|The Maën lake. File:Valtournenche001.JPG|Maën lake seen from Pâquier. </gallery>

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