Canton of Valais / Wallis
t is one of the 26 cantons forming
the Swiss Confederation. It is
composed of thirteen districts
and its capital and largest city is
Sion. The flag of the canton is
made of thirteen stars
representing the districts, on a
white-red background. Valais is
situated in the southwestern part
of the country. It borders the
cantons of Vaud and Bern to the
north, the cantons of Uri and
Ticino to the east, as well as ltaly
to the south and France to the
west. It is one of the three large
southern Alpine cantons, along
with Ticino and the Grisons. It is a
bilingual canton, French and
German being its two official
languages. Traditionally, the
canton is divided into Lower,
Central and Upper Valais, the
latter region constituting the
German-speaking minority. Valais
essentially coincides with the
valley of the Rhône from its
headwaters to Lake Geneva
separating the Pennine Alps from
the Bernese Alps. A major wine
region, the canton is
simultaneously one of the driest
regions of Switzerland in its
central Rhône valley and among
the wettest, having large amounts
of snow and rain up on the highest
peaks found in Switzerland, such
as Monte Rosa and the
Finsteraarhorn.
Crans-Montana
It is a municipality in the district of
Sierre in the canton of Valais,
Switzerland. On 1 January 2017
the former municipalities of
Chermignon, Mollens, Montana
and Randogne merged to form the
new municipality of
Crans-Montana. Crans-Montana is
also a ski resort that was created
through the fusion of the two
centers of Crans and Montana
and belonged to six municipalities
(Chermignon, Icogne, Lens
Mollens, Montana and Randogne),
four of which merged to form the
municipality of Crans-Montana.
The resort is located in the heart
of the Swiss Alps in the
French-speaking part of the
canton of Valais. It is located on a
plateau above Sierre at an
elevation of about 1,500 m (4,920
ft) above sea level, allowing good
view over the Valais Alps and
Weisshorn in particular.
The area hosts the winter
mountain pop rock festival, the
Caprices Festival, and a
professional golf tournament, the
European Tour's Omega European
Masters, which takes place each
September. The area has also
been frequently used for bicycle
racing, hosting stage finishes of
the Tour de Suisse seven times
and of the Tour de Romandie
eight times as of 2013. In addition
Crans-Montana also hosted the
finish of the 20th stage of the
1984 Tour de France, won by
Laurent Fignon, who also took the
overall race win that year


Sierre
It is the capital of the district of
Sierre in the canton of Valais in
Switzerland. It has a population of
16,332. Sierre is nicknamed City
of the Sun (French: Cité du Soleil)
for its average of 300 days of
sunshine a year. It is the last
official French speaking city in
Valais before the French-German
language border of the canton
located at the forêt de Finges, few
kilometres after the town. A
German-speaking minority lives in
Sierre, as it counts around 8% of
the population. Sierre is first
mentioned about 800 as Sidrium
though a 12th-century document
refers to the village being founded
in 515. In 1179 it was mentioned
as Sirro and in 1393 as Syder.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, Sierre became
economically important as very
early aluminium smelting is
enabled by its access to
hydroelectricity. Today the
aluminium industry Novelis and
Alcan employs 1,200 workers in
Chippis and Sierre. In 2007, the
agglomeration of Sierre/
Crans-Montana was formed to
address created to common
problems, especially in the fields
of tourism and transportation

* Source : Wikipedia

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