MOÛTIERS
HISTORIC MOUTIERS CAPITAL OF THE TARENTAISE

MOUTIERS: To the CŒUR OF THE VALLEYS

Situated to 481 m of altitude, Moûtiers, close to the National Park of the Vanoise and the skiing stations of the Three Valleys, very known of the skiers and amateurs of the mountain will know how to charm you by the quality of its welcome, its cultural sites and its numerous leisures for all.
It is nearly a dream.
Moûtiers is a small city, with all advantages of an urban site, situated in a case of greenery, set by the eternal snow of the Alps of Savoie. Among our near neighbors we can mention chamoises and ibexes, tétras lyres and marmots, without forgetting the majestic royal eagle.
During Olympics of winter, in 1992, Moûtiers sheltered the International Center of Radio Television from where left all over the world of the picturec. City of communication, proud of its past, Moûtiers is open to the technologies of tomorrow.

MOUTIERS: To the CENTRE OF THE VILLAGES

To the heart of the Tarentaise: Moûtiers is situated to the crossing of the X tarin, it is the point of meeting of the rivers, the paths and men.
All around of Moûtiers, many villages offer you the best of the Savoie: architectural heritage of the small villages of mountain, kindness of the thermal waters, cultural discoveries, all treasures of the Alpc.
Thanks to this diversity, of vacations for all tastes that ignore the monotony.

Bonneval Tarentaise
Situated in the Massif of the Lauzière, Bonneval regroups four villages staking out the road of the Madeleine's Collar. To the gap of the big tourist poles of Tarentaise, this village knew how to preserve its charm bound to the activity traditional agropastorale and to its typical architecture. You will be able to admire exceptional panoramas on the set of the big massifs, of the Cervin to the Cases, and of the préalpec.
The drills and the high pastures, furrowed by many trails and paths mule-drivers, offer courses varied of pedestrian hike the summer, and of rackets the winter. Bonneval is also the appointment of the musicians with the surprise to discover two magnificent organc. It is also the place ideal to rediscover the traditional kitchen from Savoie.

Hautecour
Hautecour is a farming township of mountain distributed in several hamlets stacked from 800 to 1300 m of altitude; the point culminating is the Quermoz to 2 296 m. As in a lot of villages of mountain, you will discover a rich traditional heritage with the banal oven, the washers, the bachals for the animals and the oratories and chapelc. The Saint-Etienne church possesses a magnificent odd retable as well as a Romanesque rock of the 12nd century.
Its natural heritage is just as rich with its forests, its high pastures and a flora typical of the pouring adrets, represented by alpine varieties but also Mediterranean.
A network of trails demarcated as well as the plan of water of the Pitfall, arranged in bases of leisures, makes the joy of the familiec.

Saline the thermal baths
The ferruginous waters of Saline Les-Thermes will give you the necessary vitality to browse the steep streets of the village. There, your rheumatisms will take advantage of the curative power recognized of the water of the hot and salty sourcec. On the banks of the Doron of Bozel and overhung by an imposing cliff of limestone, the entirely renovated county seat is very in bloom and welcoming. Some pedestrian paths permit to clear the gates of chalky rocks and to win, by meadows and forests, the hamlets situated on the sunny small hillc.
The magnificent odd retable of the church Saint-Maurice and the small chapel dedicated to Saint-Roch, to the hamlet of the Frasseses, are wealths of the heritage tarin.

Moûtiers to the heart of the Tarentaise
Since some decades, the flight of the winter sports and the migratory movements that they drag had associated the name of Moûtiers to the one of seasonal circulation "plug."
Today, the problem is settled, the fast way from Albertville, Moûtiers dessert without cluttering him and the crossroads of Europe, to the doors of the city, distribute the circulation toward the Three Valleys and the High Tarentaise. Moûtiers offers its visitors of the serene charms of a modern holiday place again.