{"id":32120,"date":"2020-04-01T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T09:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/histoire\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:21:43","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/destination\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

HHistory: the birth of Valmorel<\/h1>\n

The resort of Valmorel is said to be\u00a0 a 4th generation resort, of medium size, built after the great achievements of the 1960s.
\nValmorel was\u00a0 part of the process which started paying greater respect to the natural environment.<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In 1974<\/strong>, the communes of Aigueblanche and L\u00e9ch\u00e8re joined together to form the District of the Aigueblanche Basin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the projects at the origin of this municipal association was the creation of a winter sports resort<\/strong> to counter the rural exodus which was hitting the Morel valley.<\/p>\n

A protocol was signed in August 1975. As part of the Snow Plan<\/strong>, the urban planner-architect, Michel Bezan\u00e7on<\/strong>, was called upon to create a new mountain-style village, a “village resort”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Valmorel was born in 1976<\/strong>. The resort has specifically \u201cmanaged\u201d architecture with robust chalets of 3 to 4 floors spread over several hamlets and built with noble materials: slate covered gable roofs, stones facades, trompe-l’oeil decorations and an abundance of wood.<\/p>\n

The village was built around a main pedestrian street, rue du Bourg<\/strong>, whose shops have decorative and colourful facades and signs.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][vc_single_image image=”15037″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”15116″ img_size=”medium” style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Valmorel resort opened for Christmas 1976<\/strong> with the 2 * hotel La Fontaine and a hundred apartments in the residences of La Souche and La Sapini\u00e8re totalling 197 beds. The Rue du Bourg already had a few shops including the nightclub.<\/p>\n

The ski lifts<\/strong> opened with 15 ski lifts and 35km of marked and maintained pistes<\/strong> plus the Doucy-resort link.<\/p>\n

The ski school also gave its first lessons.<\/p>\n

In 1975<\/strong>, the entire Avanchers mountain pasture land was untouched except for the Blanchot, Rocher, Plan Chevron and Empir\u00e9 drag lifts in the village of Le Pr\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Valmorel has grown and has adapted itself to changes in tourism while still retaining the charm of a mountain village.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”3″ el_width=”20″ accent_color=”#e52228″][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”15188″ style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”15199″ style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”15194″ style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”15191″ style=”img_valmo1″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HHistory: the birth of Valmorel The resort of Valmorel is said to be\u00a0 a 4th generation resort, of medium size, built after the great achievements of the 1960s. Valmorel was\u00a0 part of the process which started paying greater respect to the natural environment. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In 1974, the communes of Aigueblanche and L\u00e9ch\u00e8re joined together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313,"parent":33527,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32120","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56247,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32120\/revisions\/56247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valmorel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}