Gressoney-La-Trinité


Gressoney-La-Trinité is a town and comune in the Val de Gressoney, part of the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.

Geography

At an elevation of above sea level, Gressoney-La-Trinité is the highest village in the Val de Gressoney, the valley of the small river Lys which is fed by the Lys glacier.

History

The area was settled by the Walser people from the Valais who left behind characteristic "Walser houses", or Stadel, buildings made of wood and stone sitting on short mushroom-shaped pillars.
Historically Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité have been two separate comunes.
From 1928 until 1946, the two were united into one commune, officially named Gressoney, which from 1939 onward was Italianized as Gressonei. After WWII, the two former communes were reconstituted.

Walser culture and language

Gressoney-La-Trinité and Gressoney-Saint-Jean form a Walser German cultural unity known as Greschòney or Kreschnau in Greschoneytitsch, the local Walser German dialect, or Kressenau in German, still spoken as of 2011.
An example of Greschòneytitsch:
Walser GermanGermanEnglish

Endsche Attò

das béscht em Hémmel,

dass héilege sígge Dín Noame.

Chéeme Dín Herrschaft.

Vater unser

der Du bist im Himmel,

geheiligt werde Dein Name.

Dein Reich komme.
Our Father

in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come,