Sentence examples for The valais from inspiring English sources

The Valais was split from Raetia by Claudius in AD 43 and merged with the province of Alpes Graiae to form a new province, Alpes Graiae et Poeninae.

Perched high in the Valais, the town has long attracted outsiders.

This was in the Valais, the canton with the country's highest mountains.

And like many others in the Valais, the piste-side Chalet Auriane is built into an impossibly steep incline.

However, at La Ferme, ((41-27) 957-2496) a dozy country restaurant, I found excellent game, fresh trout and a good selection of wines from the Valais.

The best-known dry area is the Rhône valley in the Valais, which is closely encircled by the highest (13,000 feet [4,000 metres]) mountain groups.

The study area includes the Rhone and the Durance Valleys, extending from the Alps (Valais, Switzerland) to the Mediterranean Sea (Bouches-du-Rhône, France).

It includes the beeches and oaks of the maritime west; hornbeam and larch trees in the more continental east, predominantly in the Engadin and the dry Valais; extensive spruce forests in the northern subalpine region; and chestnut groves in the south.

The IRR (Institut for Research in Rehabilitation) is financially supported by the State of Valais, the City of Sion, the Clinique Romande de Réadaptation and the Swiss accident insurance company SUVA.

They continued across the Grimsel Pass, through the upper Valais to Brig and on to the Aletsch glacier and Zermatt.

In many ways, Saas-Fee lives in the shadow of Zermatt, the worldly village at the foot of the Matterhorn in the German-speaking part of the Wallis (Valais in French) region.