The valley of Bagnes, this old country which lived on it's earth products, where people spoke there own dialect and transmitted there traditions and customs generations to generations. Because the earth was everything for the habitants of Bagnes.They cultivated the rye,the weat,the barley,the potato and produced the feed necessary for the winthering of the cattle. Every family possessed one or two cows or in defect a few goats.
During summer, crowds were going to graze in the paturages of high height, so the milk generously offered by the cows of Hérens's race allowed the manufacture of the butter and famous cheese of Bagnes. The houses were built of noble materials such as the wood the stone and the means of transportation limited themselves to the plough