National Park of Vanoise

Creation of the park	1963
central zone	52 839 ha
The peripheral zone	143 637
concerned townships	28
concerned departments	Savoie
Adjacent Park and twinned with	national park of Grand Paradis (Italy)
Are managed by the park	natural reserves of Grande Sassière, Tignes-Champagny, de Bailletaz, plan of Tuéda
Permanent personnel	52 personnes
seasonal personnel	22 personnes
number of visitors	800 000 par an
Headquarters address	113, rue du Docteur JulliandBoîte postale 705F 73007 Chambéry Cedex
Telephone	04/79/62/30/54
fax	04/79/96/37/18
internet	http://www.vanoise.com/

At the heart of the Large Alps,there where Maurienne and Tarentaise are spread, under a shone upon climate, Vanoise collects more than 100 tops, exceeding 3 000 meters of altitude, where many glaciers carve the vertiginous slopes tirelessly. Lower, the life, multiple and abundant, seize the landscape: within vast mountain pastures, the men built houses where they cohabited, formerly, with the cattle during the long winter.
In the surrounding forests, wild fauna lives at the rhythm of the seasons: skilful ibexes and chamois, variable hares and busy marmots, field voles of snows and fast watery shrews, golden eagles, noisy grouses and black grouses; on the ground: discrete vipers and lizards, grass snakes; in water:the Original Alpine triton. In addition to the most common alpine species, the flora offers true jewels to the attentive amateur, the delicate blue thistle or the rare boreal linnée .