Religious Imagery
With their twisted columns, chubby cherubs, wall paintings and brightly-coloured gilt altarpieces, the chapels and churches of Haute Maurienne Vanoise are home to many a treasure of baroque art.
In the villages and hamlets, along the roadsides and down the paths, you’ll find twenty or so chapels and churches, built from the 16th century to the present day, all bearing witness to the faith of the mountain dwellers.
Some, such as Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church in Aussois, are open all year round, while others (in Avrieux, Val Cenis Lanslebourg and Val Cenis Lanslevillard) can only be visited with guided tours. But they all reveal those gems of Baroque art representing what was meant to be a foretaste of heaven.
