ARTISTIC VILLAGE OF CHEMP

Chemp is not a simple village, but a small open-air museum, where suggestions and sculptures chase each other among ancient houses playing hide and seek with the perspectives, which become animated.

You won't find anything like it in the Alps.

Difficulty: none

Physical effort required: medium (2/3 hours of walking on a steep but well-built path + asphalted road). After May you have to protect yourself from the sun and heat. Water available everywhere along the way.

Starting altitude: 580 m a.s.l.

Altitude of Chemp: 830 m a.s.l.

Maximum altitude: 930 m a.s.l.

Total climb height difference (m): 350 m

Place of departure: Perloz (AO)

Support points: Arquibus restaurant, Tour d'Hereraz location, 34, telephone 0125806881 - 3473028131 and also Ca du For, location Capoluogo, 13 Telephone 3475833243 (rarely opens).

ITINERARY

Fascinating excursion to discover the Art Village of Chemp, and possibly the other villages of the Valley of Nantay, and visit the Perloz Resistance Museum.

Chemp is one of the most hidden villages in blocks of the Nantay valley, all formed by small groups of houses characterized by architectural solutions that recall the typical houses of the nearby Canavese, surrounded by vegetation and mostly abandoned. Up until now, these small hamlets have not experienced major building restoration works which, on the one hand, save them from decay, from the top they slightly diminish their authenticity. You could also go up by car, but it is more beautiful to reach the village on foot from the old paved mule track coming from Nantay, another characteristic and somewhat forgotten village.

The Art Village of Chemp owes its further charm to the fact that it has been transformed into an open-air museum.

After seeing Chemp we will go up to the Glacière Mill, renovated but no longer in business.

The return will take place by first reaching the inhabited hamlet of Marine and then Perloz, where after eating we will visit the small but beautiful Museum of the Resistance and the medieval press.

CONTENTS

Naturalistic aspects

The flora and fauna along the way will be illustrated according to the most interesting characteristics, also from the food point of view.

Historical-architectural aspects

Chemp's architecture is characterized by traditional houses, among which stands out a small two-story racard and a nearby house with a double arcade with stone arches. The denomination "Village of Art of Chemp" is reported on a wrought iron sign placed at the end of the asphalted road coming from Marine. The medieval press is beautiful.

FEES

Teacher: 180 euros per group up to 6 people, over 20 euros each.

Lunch at the little restaurant Arquibus (highly recommended for tasting local products): starting from 15 Euros (a plate of polenta tanning with the DOP toma di Gressoney or the Fontina DOP + the glass of Aosta Valley DOC wine Valle d'Aosta + 1 sweet).

Alternatively, packed lunch.

ACCESSIBILITY AND SERVICES
wheelchairs: YES with adequate equipment and on easy routes
blinds: YES
animals: YES on a leash
toilettes: NO, free
photographs: YES

LESSONS ARE CARRIED OUT ALSO IN CASE OF SNOW or RAIN

TRANSPORTS

http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom/Treni-Regionali/Valle-d%27Aosta

https://www.flixbus.it/orari-fermate-autobus/aosta

https://www.svap.it/it/31/linee-e-orari/

https://www.autobus.it/