Thyon
Thyon at 2095 m above sea level M. is a district of the political municipality Vex on the western slope of the Val d'Hérémence in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais .
The village is connected to the 4 Vallées ski area with the destinations La Tzoumaz , Nendaz , Verbier and Veysonnaz . Between Thyon and Veysonnaz there is, among other things, the Piste de l'Ours (analogously: bear slope ), on which World Cup races have often been held.
The Thyon-Région includes the two communities Hérémence and Vex and stretches from the wide, fertile Rhône plain ( 600 m ) up to the Mont-Blanc de Cheilon ( 3870 m above sea level ). In this area the stations Les Collons, Thyon 2000 and Les Masses emerged one after the other . In the 1960s and 1970s, initially larger apartment houses, and later more and more individual chalets, were built on the former alpine meadows . In the ski area in the Thyon area, easy and intermediate slopes dominate. The panorama extends over the Matterhorn , Dent Blanche and Mont Blanc .
The station now has 80 residents and 7,000 guest beds.
Attractions
Web links
- Homepage of Thyon
- David Rey: Thyon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 46 ° 11 ' N , 7 ° 22' E ; CH1903: 594891 / 114486