The "Bisses"are channeling
sky opened quite known in the Valais. They allowed to irrigate the cultures
and to bring the water necessary for the economy of villages alpine.The
"levronais" built the bisse in 1465, during its history, this
aqueduct which worked so-so, was the object of numerous conflicts among
the "bagnards"and the "levronais".Destroyed then reconstructed,
it is an eloquent and visible track of the history of Bagnes.
Always in fonction, le "Bisse"passes by on a lenght 13 kilometres,
it result from alpages of "la Chaux"by following its court it
passes in some steps of the restaurant"La Marmotte" and ends
its journey by a vertiginous fall which will take it farther towards the
municipalities of "Vollège".The Bisse it is also a relaxing
walk because it offers a flat path (rather rare in mountains) and a variant
of magnificent landscape. |