Heritage: Rhêmes-Saint-Georges

The historic characteristics of the Val di Rhêmes can now be seen in the architecture and layout of some of its villages. There are numerous buildings in Vieux and Coveyrand and one, dated 1696, highly reflects the nearby “L’Ola” farmhouse in Introd, especially for its cylinder pillars. There is a building in the village of Melignon which presumably dates back to the seventeenth century with an 1849 fresco on the facade.

Located on a prominent headland, it represents one of the most significant historic monuments in the valley. It was already mentioned in a Papal Bull from Alexander III in 1176 with the name “Ecclesia de Voce”: it is the first parish church dedicated to Saint George, located in the village of Voix.
It was destroyed by flooding or a landslide, according to different sources, and was rebuilt in its current location in the XV century.
Over the centuries the church underwent changes, such as the raising of the belltower, the construction of a new wooden altar in Valsesian style, typical of Baroque figurative culture in the Alps, and the addition of some furnishings such as Boemia crystal chandeliers from 1840.
The small parish church museum is particularly precious, full of furnishings and small statues of sacred art.

The museum, housed in the hamlet of Coveyrand by the parish church, holds ancient furnishings and sacred ornaments from the parish church and the village’s chapels.